Re: [PATCH v25 00/10] Add ARMv8 RAS virtualization support in QEMU

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On 2020/4/17 21:32, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 12:46, Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> In the ARMv8 platform, the CPU error types includes synchronous external abort(SEA)
>> and SError Interrupt (SEI). If exception happens in guest, host does not know the detailed
>> information of guest, so it is expected that guest can do the recovery. For example, if an
>> exception happens in a guest user-space application, host does not know which application
>> encounters errors, only guest knows it.
>>
>> For the ARMv8 SEA/SEI, KVM or host kernel delivers SIGBUS to notify userspace.
>> After user space gets the notification, it will record the CPER into guest GHES
>> buffer and inject an exception or IRQ to guest.
>>
>> In the current implementation, if the type of SIGBUS is BUS_MCEERR_AR, we will
>> treat it as a synchronous exception, and notify guest with ARMv8 SEA
>> notification type after recording CPER into guest.
> 
> Hi. I left a comment on patch 1. The other 3 patches unreviewed
> are 5, 6 and 8, which are all ACPI core code, so that's for
> MST, Igor or Shannon to review.

Hi MST, Igor or Shannon
    when you have time, could you review 5, 6 and 8? thanks very much in advance.
It seems this series of patches lasted a long time, hope they can be applied soon.

> 
> Once those have been reviewed, please ping me if you want this
> to go via target-arm.next>
> thanks
> -- PMM
> 
> .
> 




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