Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] KVM: PPC: Exit guest upon MCE when FWNMI capability is enabled

From: Paul Mackerras <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:18:53 +1000

Hi Aravinda,

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:38:09PM +0530, Aravinda Prasad wrote:
> Enhance KVM to cause a guest exit with KVM_EXIT_NMI
> exit reasons upon a machine check exception (MCE) in
> the guest address space if the KVM_CAP_PPC_FWNMI
> capability is enabled (instead of delivering 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 delivering of machine
> check exception to guest OS compared to the earlier
> approach of KVM directly invoking 0x200 guest interrupt
> vector. In the earlier approach QEMU was enhanced to
> patch the 0x200 interrupt vector during boot. The
> patched code at 0x200 issued a private hcall to pass
> the control to QEMU to build the error log.
> 
> 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
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aravinda Prasad <[email-masked]>

Are you in the process of doing a new version of this patch with the
requested changes?

Paul.