From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755917AbdDFJGj (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Apr 2017 05:06:39 -0400 Received: from cn.fujitsu.com ([59.151.112.132]:60845 "EHLO heian.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932917AbdDFIob (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Apr 2017 04:44:31 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.22,518,1449504000"; d="scan'208";a="17425611" Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Alex Williamson References: <58DA6954.2000601@cn.fujitsu.com> <20170328101233.74f50a92@t450s.home> <20170329000148.GA18849@redhat.com> <20170328205513.21b97381@t450s.home> <20170330205823-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20170330121652.2ac8fa62@t450s.home> <58E4B0C9.50109@cn.fujitsu.com> <20170405133822.76cda620@t450s.home> <20170406004845-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20170405161910.26fee7d1@t450s.home> <20170406013534-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> CC: , , , From: Cao jin Message-ID: <58E60218.4040500@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 16:53:44 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170406013534-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.167.226.69] X-yoursite-MailScanner-ID: 3285A47CE221.A593C X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-yoursite-MailScanner-From: caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/06/2017 06:36 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 04:19:10PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: >> On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 00:50:22 +0300 >> "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 01:38:22PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: >>>> The previous intention of trying to handle all sorts of AER faults >>>> clearly had more value, though even there the implementation and >>>> configuration requirements restricted the practicality. For instance >>>> is AER support actually useful to a customer if it requires all ports >>>> of a multifunction device assigned to the VM? This seems more like a >>>> feature targeting whole system partitioning rather than general VM >>>> device assignment use cases. Maybe that's ok, but it should be a clear >>>> design decision. >>> >>> Alex, what kind of testing do you expect to be necessary? >>> Would you say testing on real hardware and making it trigger >>> AER errors is a requirement? >> >> Testing various fatal, non-fatal, and corrected errors with aer-inject, >> especially in multfunction configurations (where more than one port >> is actually usable) would certainly be required. If we have cases where >> the driver for a companion function can escalate a non-fatal error to a >> bus reset, that should be tested, even if it requires temporary hacks to >> the host driver for the companion function to trigger that case. AER >> handling is not something that the typical user is going to experience, >> so it should to be thoroughly tested to make sure it works when needed >> or there's little point to doing it at all. Thanks, >> >> Alex > > Some things can be tested within a VM. What would you > say would be sufficient on a VM and what has to be > tested on bare metal? > Does the "bare metal" here mean something like XenServer? -- Sincerely, Cao jin