Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] AER-KVM: Error containment of VFIO devicesassigned to KVM guests

[Gleb Natapov]

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On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 02:10:08PM +0000, Pandarathil, Vijaymohan R 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.
> 
> 
> 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 for getting 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  | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  include/linux/vfio.h |  3 +++
>  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c         | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c   | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h |  1 +
>  include/uapi/linux/vfio.h           |  1 +
>  4 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Qemu files changed
> 
>  hw/vfio_pci.c              | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  linux-headers/linux/vfio.h |   1 +
>  2 files changed, 106 insertions(+)

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			Gleb.
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