From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aravinda Prasad Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 21:13:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] KVM: PPC: Exit guest upon MCE when FWNMI capability is enabled Message-Id: <5769AB27.7040604@linux.vnet.ibm.com> List-Id: References: <20160113070759.20248.86252.stgit@aravindap> <20160113070809.20248.80811.stgit@aravindap> <20160620051853.GA29366@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20160620051853.GA29366@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Mackerras Cc: gleb@kernel.org, agraf@suse.de, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, kvm@vger.kernel.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au On Monday 20 June 2016 10:48 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Hi Aravinda, > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:38:09PM +0530, Aravinda Prasad wrote: >> Enhance KVM to cause a guest exit with KVM_EXIT_NMI >> exit reasons upon a machine check exception (MCE) in >> the guest address space if the KVM_CAP_PPC_FWNMI >> capability is enabled (instead of delivering 0x200 >> interrupt to guest). This enables QEMU to build error >> log and deliver machine check exception to guest via >> guest registered machine check handler. >> >> This approach simplifies the delivering of machine >> check exception to guest OS compared to the earlier >> approach of KVM directly invoking 0x200 guest interrupt >> vector. In the earlier approach QEMU was enhanced to >> patch the 0x200 interrupt vector during boot. The >> patched code at 0x200 issued a private hcall to pass >> the control to QEMU to build the error log. >> >> This design/approach is based on the feedback for the >> QEMU patches to handle machine check exception. Details >> of earlier approach of handling machine check exception >> in QEMU and related discussions can be found at: >> >> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-11/msg00813.html >> >> Signed-off-by: Aravinda Prasad > > Are you in the process of doing a new version of this patch with the > requested changes? Yes, I am working (intermittently) on the new version. But, not able to finish off and post it. Will complete it and post the new version. Regards, Aravinda > > Paul. > -- Regards, Aravinda