[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: notify host when guest panicked

[Wen Congyang]

We can know the guest is panicked when the guest runs on xen.
But we do not have such feature on kvm.

Another purpose of this feature is: management app(for example:
libvirt) can do auto dump when the guest is panicked. If management
app does not do auto dump, the guest's user can do dump by hand if
he sees the guest is panicked.

We have three solutions to implement this feature:
1. use vmcall
2. use I/O port
3. use virtio-serial.

We have decided to avoid touching hypervisor. The reason why I choose
choose the I/O port is:
1. it is easier to implememt
2. it does not depend any virtual device
3. it can work when startint the kernel

Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <address@hidden>
---
 arch/ia64/include/asm/kvm_para.h    |    5 +++++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_para.h |    5 +++++
 arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_para.h    |    5 +++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h     |    7 +++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c               |   14 ++++++++++++++
 include/linux/kvm_para.h            |   15 +++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/kvm_para.h
index 1588aee..a890096 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/kvm_para.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/kvm_para.h
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ static inline unsigned int kvm_arch_para_features(void)
        return 0;
 }
 
+static inline unsigned int kvm_arch_pv_features(void)
+{
+       return 0;
+}
+
 #endif
 
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_para.h 
b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_para.h
index 7b754e7..b5f7c35 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_para.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_para.h
@@ -206,6 +206,11 @@ static inline unsigned int kvm_arch_para_features(void)
        return r;
 }
 
+static inline unsigned int kvm_arch_pv_features(void)
+{
+       return 0;
+}
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif /* __POWERPC_KVM_PARA_H__ */
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_para.h
index 6964db2..21a8d18 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_para.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_para.h
@@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ static inline unsigned int kvm_arch_para_features(void)
        return 0;
 }
 
+static inline unsigned int kvm_arch_pv_features(void)
+{
+       return 0;
+}
+
 #endif
 
 #endif /* __S390_KVM_PARA_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
index 734c376..f66b16e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
@@ -208,6 +208,13 @@ static inline void kvm_disable_steal_time(void)
 }
 #endif
 
+#ifdef KVM_PV_PORT
+static inline unsigned int kvm_arch_pv_features(void)
+{
+       return inl(KVM_PV_PORT);
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_KVM_PARA_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index b8ba6e4..adfde45 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -335,6 +335,17 @@ static struct notifier_block kvm_pv_reboot_nb = {
        .notifier_call = kvm_pv_reboot_notify,
 };
 
+static int
+kvm_pv_panic_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long code, void 
*unused)
+{
+       outl(KVM_PV_PANICKED, KVM_PV_PORT);
+       return NOTIFY_DONE;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block kvm_pv_panic_nb = {
+       .notifier_call = kvm_pv_panic_notify,
+};
+
 static u64 kvm_steal_clock(int cpu)
 {
        u64 steal;
@@ -421,6 +432,9 @@ void __init kvm_guest_init(void)
 
        paravirt_ops_setup();
        register_reboot_notifier(&kvm_pv_reboot_nb);
+       if (kvm_pv_has_feature(KVM_PV_FEATURE_PANICKED))
+               atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list,
+                       &kvm_pv_panic_nb);
        for (i = 0; i < KVM_TASK_SLEEP_HASHSIZE; i++)
                spin_lock_init(&async_pf_sleepers[i].lock);
        if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF))
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_para.h b/include/linux/kvm_para.h
index ff476dd..849b0d5 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_para.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_para.h
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@
 #define KVM_HC_FEATURES                        3
 #define KVM_HC_PPC_MAP_MAGIC_PAGE      4
 
+#define KVM_PV_PORT    (0x505UL)
+
+/* The bit of the value read from KVM_PV_PORT */
+#define KVM_PV_FEATURE_PANICKED        0
+
+/* The value writen to KVM_PV_PORT */
+#define KVM_PV_PANICKED                1
+
 /*
  * hypercalls use architecture specific
  */
@@ -33,5 +41,12 @@ static inline int kvm_para_has_feature(unsigned int feature)
                return 1;
        return 0;
 }
+
+static inline int kvm_pv_has_feature(unsigned int feature)
+{
+       if (kvm_arch_pv_features() & (1UL << feature))
+               return 1;
+       return 0;
+}
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif /* __LINUX_KVM_PARA_H */
-- 
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