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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/3] AER-KVM: Error containment of VFIO devic
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Alex Williamson |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/3] AER-KVM: Error containment of VFIO devices assigned to KVM guests |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:08:04 -0600 |
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 01:52 -0600, Vijay Mohan Pandarathil wrote:
> Add support for error containment when a VFIO device assigned to a KVM
> guest encounters an error. This is for PCIe devices/drivers that support AER
> functionality. When the host OS is notified of an error in a device either
> through the firmware first approach or through an interrupt handled by the AER
> root port driver, the error handler registered by the vfio-pci driver gets
> invoked. The qemu process is signaled through an eventfd registered per
> VFIO device by the qemu process. In the eventfd handler, qemu decides on
> what action to take. In this implementation, guest is brought down to
> contain the error.
>
>
> v7:
> - Rebased to latest upstream
> - Used device_lock() for synchronising err_trigger access
> v6:
> - Rebased to latest upstream
> - Resolved merge conflict with vfio_dev_present()
> v5:
> - Rebased to latest upstream stable bits
> - Incorporated v4 feedback
> v4:
> - Stop the guest instead of terminating
> - Remove unwanted returns from functions
> - Incorporate other feedback
> v3:
> - Removed PCI_AER* flags from device info ioctl.
> - Incorporated feedback
> v2:
> - Rebased to latest upstream stable bits
> - Changed the new ioctl to be part of VFIO_SET_IRQs ioctl
> - Added a new patch to get/put reference to a vfio device from struct device
> - Incorporated all other feedback.
>
> ---
>
> Vijay Mohan Pandarathil(3):
>
> [PATCH 1/3] VFIO: Wrapper to get reference to vfio_device from device
> [PATCH 2/3] VFIO-AER: Vfio-pci driver changes for supporting AER
> [PATCH 3/3] QEMU-AER: Qemu changes to support AER for VFIO-PCI devices
>
> Kernel files changed
>
> drivers/vfio/vfio.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> include/linux/vfio.h | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c | 64
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h | 1 +
> include/uapi/linux/vfio.h | 1 +
> 4 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Applied 1 & 2 to my next tree, patch 3 is qemu and depends on the vfio.h
change getting into mainline so will need to be re-sent once that
happens. Thanks,
Alex
> Qemu files changed
>
> hw/vfio_pci.c | 123
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> linux-headers/linux/vfio.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 124 insertions(+)