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From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>,
	Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@huawei.com>,
	marc.zyngier@arm.com, christoffer.dall@linaro.org,
	rkrcmar@redhat.com, linux@armlinux.org.uk,
	tbaicar@codeaurora.org, imammedo@redhat.com,
	zhaoshenglong@huawei.com, peter.maydell@linaro.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-arm@nongnu.org, lersek@redhat.com,
	ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, mtsirkin@redhat.com,
	drjones@redhat.com, ben@skyportsystems.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, xiexiuqi@huawei.com,
	wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com, songwenjun@huawei.com,
	wuquanming@huawei.com, huangshaoyu@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/3] arm64: kvm: support kvmtool to detect RAS extension feature
Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 09:19:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <590AE40B.7060002@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d443da4-d17f-2487-10d5-b6c9639dc5a4@redhat.com>

Hi Paolo,

On 02/05/17 16:48, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 02/05/2017 09:56, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> The subject and description of these patches are also misleading.
>> Hopefully this is in no way tied to kvmtool, but to userspace
>> generically, for example also to be used by QEMU?
> 
> Yes, QEMU already has a similar capability on x86.
> 
> Does ARM support background scrubbing of memory to detect errors? 

As part of RAS support, yes. A way for firmware to notify the OS about these
events was recently added to the ACPI specification.
We are aiming to turn on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE which does the Linux end
of things. Punit has a series here:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg575944.html


> If
> so, are there any plans to support action-optional SIGBUS on ARM?

It looks like ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE will bring that in, so yes.



Thanks,

James

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-04  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-30  5:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/3] arm64: kvm: support kvmtool to detect RAS extension feature Dongjiu Geng
2017-04-30  5:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/3] arm64: kvm: inject SError with virtual syndrome Dongjiu Geng
2017-05-02  8:03   ` Christoffer Dall
2017-05-02 12:20     ` gengdongjiu
2017-05-02 15:37   ` James Morse
2017-05-05 13:19     ` gengdongjiu
2017-05-12 17:24       ` James Morse
2017-05-21  9:08         ` gengdongjiu
2017-04-30  5:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/3] arm/arm64: signal SIBGUS and inject SEA Error Dongjiu Geng
2017-05-02 15:41   ` James Morse
2017-05-02  7:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/3] arm64: kvm: support kvmtool to detect RAS extension feature Christoffer Dall
2017-05-02 11:05   ` gengdongjiu
2017-05-02 12:15   ` gengdongjiu
2017-05-02 15:48   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-04  8:19     ` James Morse [this message]
2017-05-02 15:29 ` James Morse
2017-05-04 15:49   ` James Morse
2017-05-05 12:44     ` gengdongjiu
2017-06-26  5:22   ` gengdongjiu

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