Re: [Qemu-ppc] [patch-for-4.2 PATCH v11 0/6] target-ppc/spapr: Add FWNMI support in QEMU for PowerKVM guests

[Aravinda Prasad]

On Thursday 29 August 2019 03:51 PM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:40:50 +0530
> Aravinda Prasad <address@hidden> 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.
>>
>> Change Log v11:
>>   - Moved FWNMI SPAPR cap defaults to 4.2 class option
>>   - Fixed issues with handling fwnmi KVM capability
>>
> 
> Hi Aravinda,
> 
> I'm afraid this series needs rebasing. It doesn't apply
> cleanly on current ppc-for-4.2 (SHA1 b1e8156743).

This was based on the latest 4.2 at the time of posting (14th Aug).
Meanwhile may be due to changes to 4.2 it is not applying cleanly. I
will rebase it to the latest 4.2 and post it again.

Regards,
Aravinda

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Greg
> 
>> Change Log v10:
>>   - Reshuffled the patch sequence + minor fixes
>>
>> Change Log v9:
>>   - Fixed kvm cap and spapr cap issues
>>
>> Change Log v8:
>>   - Added functionality to check FWNMI capability during
>>     VM migration
>> ---
>>
>> Aravinda Prasad (6):
>>       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
>>
>>
>>  cpus.c                   |    5 +
>>  hw/ppc/spapr.c           |   78 +++++++++++++
>>  hw/ppc/spapr_caps.c      |   29 +++++
>>  hw/ppc/spapr_events.c    |  268 
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c      |   78 +++++++++++++
>>  include/hw/ppc/spapr.h   |   25 ++++
>>  include/qemu/main-loop.h |    8 +
>>  target/ppc/cpu.h         |    1 
>>  target/ppc/kvm.c         |   38 +++++++
>>  target/ppc/kvm_ppc.h     |   13 ++
>>  target/ppc/trace-events  |    1 
>>  11 files changed, 542 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> Signature
> 
> 

-- 
Regards,
Aravinda