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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> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.