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Re: [PATCH v21 0/7]target-ppc/spapr: Add FWNMI support in QEMU for Power


From: David Gibson
Subject: Re: [PATCH v21 0/7]target-ppc/spapr: Add FWNMI support in QEMU for PowerKVM guests
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:39:06 +1100

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 12:14:16AM +0530, Ganesh Goudar wrote:
> This patch set adds support for FWNMI in PowerKVM guests.
> 
> System errors such as SLB multihit and memory errors
> that cannot be corrected by hardware is passed on to
> the kernel for handling by raising machine check
> exception (an NMI). Upon such machine check exceptions,
> if the address in error belongs to guest then KVM
> invokes guests' 0x200 interrupt vector if the guest
> is not FWNMI capable. For FWNMI capable guest
> KVM passes the control to QEMU by exiting the guest.
> 
> This patch series adds functionality to QEMU to pass
> on such machine check exceptions to the FWNMI capable
> guest kernel by building an error log and invoking
> the guest registered machine check handling routine.
> 
> The KVM changes are now part of the upstream kernel
> (commit e20bbd3d). This series contain QEMU changes.

Applied to ppc-for-5.0.

> 
> Change Log v21:
>   - Use error_setg() for failure handling in apply hook.
>   - Report warning if FWNMI enabled for TCG.
>   - Enable FWNMI by default for machine type 5.0.
> 
> Change Log v20:
>   - Remove code left over from previous version.
> 
> Change Log v19:
>   - Create error object for migration blocker in machine_init().
>   - Remove the check to see fwnmi calls are already registered,
>     which is no longer needed.
>   - Register fwnmi RTAS calls in core_rtas_register_types() where
>     other RTAS calls are registered.
>   - Bail out from interlock call if the cap is not set.
>   - Reorder and add missing S-O-Bs.
> 
> Change Log v18:
>   - Dynamically create the Error object before adding it as blocker
>   - In apply hook check if the fwnmi calls are already registered and
>     if kvm supports fwnmi before registering the fwnmi calls.
>   - In rtas_ibm_nmi_register() test the feature flag before attempting
>     to get the RTAS address
>   - Introduce a bool member "fwnmi_calls_registered" to check if the
>     fwnmi calls are registered and use the same in needed hook to save
>     the state during migration. 
> 
> Change Log v17:
>   - Add fwnmi cap to migration state
>   - Reprhase the commit message in patch 2/7
> 
> Change Log v16:
>   - Fixed coding style problems
> 
> Change Log v15:
>   - Removed cap_ppc_fwnmi
>   - Moved fwnmi registeration to .apply hook
>   - Assume SLOF has allocated enough room for rtas error log
>   - Using ARRAY_SIZE to end the loop
>   - Do not set FWNMI cap in post_load, now its done in .apply hook
> 
> Change Log v14:
>   - Feature activation moved to a separate patch
>   - Fixed issues with migration blocker
> 
> Change Log v13:
>   - Minor fixes (mostly nits)
>   - Moved FWNMI guest registration check from patch 4 to 3.
> 
> Change Log v12:
>   - Rebased to latest ppc-for-4.2 (SHA b1e8156743)
> 
> Change Log v11:
>   - Moved FWNMI SPAPR cap defaults to 4.2 class option
>   - Fixed issues with handling fwnmi KVM capability
> 
> ---
> 
> Aravinda Prasad (7):
>   Wrapper function to wait on condition for the main loop mutex
>   ppc: spapr: Introduce FWNMI capability
>   target/ppc: Handle NMI guest exit
>   target/ppc: Build rtas error log upon an MCE
>   ppc: spapr: Handle "ibm,nmi-register" and "ibm,nmi-interlock" RTAS
>     calls
>   migration: Include migration support for machine check handling
>   ppc: spapr: Activate the FWNMI functionality
> 
>  cpus.c                   |   5 +
>  hw/ppc/spapr.c           |  60 +++++++++
>  hw/ppc/spapr_caps.c      |  28 ++++
>  hw/ppc/spapr_events.c    | 269 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c      |  87 +++++++++++++
>  include/hw/ppc/spapr.h   |  25 +++-
>  include/qemu/main-loop.h |   8 ++
>  target/ppc/kvm.c         |  24 ++++
>  target/ppc/kvm_ppc.h     |   8 ++
>  target/ppc/trace-events  |   1 +
>  10 files changed, 513 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

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