Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] Add RAS virtualization support to SEA/SEI notification type

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 22:11:50 +0800
Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In the firmware-first RAS solution, corrupt data is detected in a
> memory location when guest OS application software executing at EL0
> or guest OS kernel El1 software are reading from the memory. The
> memory node records errors in an error record accessible using
> system registers.
> 
> Because SCR_EL3.EA is 1, then CPU will trap to El3 firmware, EL3
> firmware records the error to APEI table through reading system
> register.
> 
> Because the error was taken from a lower Exception leve, if the

leve -> level

> exception is SEA/SEI and HCR_EL2.TEA/HCR_EL2.AMO is 1, firmware
> sets ESR_EL2/FAR_El to fake a exception trap to EL2, then
> transfers to hypervisor.
> 
> Hypervisor calls the momory failure to deal with this error, momory

momory -> memory

memory failure -> memory failure function? Or callback perhaps?

> failure read the APEI table and decide whether it needs to deliver
> SIGBUS signal to user space, the advantage of using SIGBUS signal
> to notify user space is that it can be compatible Non-Kvm users.

Seems like a good description to me. Thanks.

Jonathan

> 
> Dongjiu Geng (5):
>   acpi: apei: Add SEI notification type support for ARMv8
>   support user space to query RAS extension feature
>   arm64: kvm: route synchronous external abort exceptions to el2
>   KVM: arm/arm64: Allow get exception syndrome and
>   arm64: kvm: handle SEI notification and inject virtual SError
> 
> James Morse (1):
>   KVM: arm64: Save ESR_EL2 on guest SError
> 
> Xie XiuQi (1):
>   arm64: cpufeature: Detect CPU RAS Extentions
> 
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h      |  2 ++
>  arch/arm/kvm/guest.c                 |  5 +++
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                   | 16 ++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h     |  1 +
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h     |  3 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h     |  2 ++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 17 ++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h    |  2 ++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h      |  5 +++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/system_misc.h |  1 +
>  arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h    |  5 +++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c       | 13 ++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/process.c          |  3 ++
>  arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c               | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c         | 21 +++++++++++--
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c          | 29 +++++++++++++++--
>  arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c               |  3 ++
>  arch/arm64/mm/fault.c                | 21 +++++++++++--
>  drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig            | 15 +++++++++
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c             | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  include/acpi/ghes.h                  |  2 +-
>  include/uapi/linux/kvm.h             |  3 ++
>  virt/kvm/arm/arm.c                   |  7 +++++
>  23 files changed, 254 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>