linux/arch
Aravinda Prasad e20bbd3d8d KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Exit guest upon MCE when FWNMI capability is enabled
Enhance KVM to cause a guest exit with KVM_EXIT_NMI
exit reason upon a machine check exception (MCE) in
the guest address space if the KVM_CAP_PPC_FWNMI
capability is enabled (instead of delivering a 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 delivery of machine
check exception to guest OS compared to the earlier
approach of KVM directly invoking 0x200 guest interrupt
vector.

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

Note:

This patch now directly invokes machine_check_print_event_info()
from kvmppc_handle_exit_hv() to print the event to host console
at the time of guest exit before the exception is passed on to the
guest. Hence, the host-side handling which was performed earlier
via machine_check_fwnmi is removed.

The reasons for this approach is (i) it is not possible
to distinguish whether the exception occurred in the
guest or the host from the pt_regs passed on the
machine_check_exception(). Hence machine_check_exception()
calls panic, instead of passing on the exception to
the guest, if the machine check exception is not
recoverable. (ii) the approach introduced in this
patch gives opportunity to the host kernel to perform
actions in virtual mode before passing on the exception
to the guest. This approach does not require complex
tweaks to machine_check_fwnmi and friends.

Signed-off-by: Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
2017-06-22 11:24:57 +10:00
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alpha osf_wait4(): fix infoleak 2017-05-21 13:10:07 -04:00
arc Kbuild UAPI header export updates for v4.12 2017-05-10 20:45:36 -07:00
arm KVM fixes for v4.12-rc2 2017-05-19 15:13:13 -07:00
arm64 KVM fixes for v4.12-rc2 2017-05-19 15:13:13 -07:00
blackfin uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
c6x uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
cris devicetree: Move include prefixes from arch to separate directory 2017-05-18 23:55:48 -07:00
frv Kbuild UAPI header export updates for v4.12 2017-05-10 20:45:36 -07:00
h8300 uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
hexagon uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
ia64 Kbuild UAPI header export updates for v4.12 2017-05-10 20:45:36 -07:00
m32r uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
m68k uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
metag devicetree: Move include prefixes from arch to separate directory 2017-05-18 23:55:48 -07:00
microblaze uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
mips devicetree: Move include prefixes from arch to separate directory 2017-05-18 23:55:48 -07:00
mn10300 uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
nios2 nios2 update for v4.12-rc1 2017-05-12 09:53:16 -07:00
openrisc uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
parisc uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
powerpc KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Exit guest upon MCE when FWNMI capability is enabled 2017-06-22 11:24:57 +10:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2017-05-16 09:24:44 -07:00
score uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
sh Kbuild UAPI header export updates for v4.12 2017-05-10 20:45:36 -07:00
sparc sparc/ftrace: Fix ftrace graph time measurement 2017-05-17 12:07:47 -07:00
tile arch/include: remove empty Kbuild files 2017-05-11 00:22:18 +09:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2017-05-13 10:20:02 -07:00
unicore32 Kbuild UAPI header export updates for v4.12 2017-05-10 20:45:36 -07:00
x86 x86: fix 32-bit case of __get_user_asm_u64() 2017-05-21 18:26:54 -07:00
xtensa uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00