From: Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-s390x@nongnu.org
Cc: mjrosato@linux.ibm.com, alifm@linux.ibm.com,
farman@linux.ibm.com, cohuck@redhat.com, alex@shazbot.org,
clg@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/4] vfio/pci: Add an error handler callback
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:31:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260831183151.12626-3-alifm@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260831183151.12626-1-alifm@linux.ibm.com>
Provide a vfio error handling callback, that can be used by devices to
handle PCI errors for passthrough devices.
Signed-off-by: Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com>
---
hw/vfio/pci.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++------
hw/vfio/pci.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/hw/vfio/pci.c b/hw/vfio/pci.c
index 428ab2f069..a2f489b34d 100644
--- a/hw/vfio/pci.c
+++ b/hw/vfio/pci.c
@@ -3244,21 +3244,36 @@ void vfio_pci_put_device(VFIOPCIDevice *vdev)
static void vfio_err_notifier_handler(void *opaque)
{
VFIOPCIDevice *vdev = opaque;
+ Error *err = NULL;
if (!event_notifier_test_and_clear(&vdev->err_notifier)) {
return;
}
/*
- * TBD. Retrieve the error details and decide what action
- * needs to be taken. One of the actions could be to pass
- * the error to the guest and have the guest driver recover
- * from the error. This requires that PCIe capabilities be
- * exposed to the guest. For now, we just terminate the
+ * We can retrieve the error details and decide what action
+ * needs to be taken in err_handler(). One of the actions could
+ * be to pass the error to the guest and have the guest driver
+ * recover from the error. This requires that PCIe capabilities be
+ * exposed to the guest.
+ *
+ * If err_handler() is not implemented/fails, we just terminate the
* guest to contain the error.
*/
- error_report("%s(%s) Unrecoverable error detected. Please collect any data possible and then kill the guest", __func__, vdev->vbasedev.name);
+ if (vdev->err_handler && vdev->err_handler(vdev, &err)) {
+ return;
+ }
+
+ if (err) {
+ error_prepend(&err, "Unrecoverable PCIe error detected for device %s",
+ vdev->vbasedev.name);
+ error_report_err(err);
+ } else {
+ error_printf("Unrecoverable PCIe error detected for device %s",
+ vdev->vbasedev.name);
+ }
+ error_printf("Please collect any data possible and then kill the guest");
vm_stop(RUN_STATE_INTERNAL_ERROR);
}
diff --git a/hw/vfio/pci.h b/hw/vfio/pci.h
index c9ab949870..c067bbbebc 100644
--- a/hw/vfio/pci.h
+++ b/hw/vfio/pci.h
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ struct VFIOPCIDevice {
EventNotifier err_notifier;
EventNotifier req_notifier;
int (*resetfn)(struct VFIOPCIDevice *);
+ bool (*err_handler)(struct VFIOPCIDevice *, Error **);
uint32_t vendor_id;
uint32_t device_id;
uint32_t sub_vendor_id;
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-31 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-31 18:31 [PATCH v4 0/4] Error recovery for zPCI passthrough devices Farhan Ali
2026-08-31 18:31 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] linux-headers: Update Linux header to 7.3-rc1 Farhan Ali
2026-08-31 18:31 ` Farhan Ali [this message]
2026-09-02 8:07 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] vfio/pci: Add an error handler callback Cédric Le Goater
2026-09-02 8:21 ` Shameer Kolothum Thodi
2026-09-02 10:39 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-09-02 16:23 ` Farhan Ali
2026-09-03 10:24 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-09-02 16:34 ` Farhan Ali
2026-09-03 12:08 ` Shameer Kolothum Thodi
2026-09-03 18:07 ` Farhan Ali
2026-09-04 9:58 ` Shameer Kolothum Thodi
2026-08-31 18:31 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] s390x/pci: Add PCI error handling for vfio pci devices Farhan Ali
2026-09-02 8:22 ` Cédric Le Goater
2026-09-02 16:43 ` Farhan Ali
2026-08-31 18:31 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] s390x/pci: Reset a device in error state Farhan Ali
2026-09-02 8:27 ` Cédric Le Goater
2026-09-02 16:48 ` Farhan Ali
2026-09-03 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Error recovery for zPCI passthrough devices Cédric Le Goater
2026-09-03 17:55 ` Farhan Ali
2026-09-08 19:25 ` Farhan Ali
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