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

[Greg Kurz]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:08:53 +0530
Aravinda Prasad <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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).

I was on vacation at that time but you're probably right.

> 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.
> 

Thanks !

> 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
> > 
> > 
>