Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] arm64: kvm: support kvmtool to detect RAS extension feature

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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



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