On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 14:31, gengdongjiu <gengdong...@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
> Thanks for the comments and mail.
>
> >
> > On 22 November 2018 at 10:28, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
> > wrote:
> > > On 22 November 2018 at 03:05, gengdongjiu <gengdong...@huawei.com> wrote:
> > >>> >
> > >>> Shouldn't there be something in here to say "only report this error to
> > >>> the guest if we are actually reporting RAS errors to the guest" ?
> > >>
> > >> Yes, We can say something that such as "report this error to the guest",
> > >> because this error is indeed triggered by guest, which is guest
> > error.
> > >
> > > I'm afraid I don't really understand what you mean. Could you try
> > > rephrasing it?
> > >
> > > My understanding was:
> > > * we get this signal if there is a RAS error in the host memory
> > > * if we are exposing RAS errors to the guest (ie we have
> > > told it that in the ACPI table we passed it at startup)
> > > then we should pass on this error to the guest
> > >
> > > but that these are two different conditions.
> > >
> > > If the host hardware detects a RAS error in memory used by the guest
> > > but the guest is not being told about RAS errors, then we cannot
> > > report the error: we have no mechanism to do so, and the guest is not
> > > expecting it.
> >
> > If you look at the x86 version of this function you can see that it tests
> > (env->mcg_cap & MCG_SER_P), which I think is the equivalent x86 "is
> > the guest CPU/config one we can report these errors to" test.
>
> MCG_SER_P (software error recovery support present) flag indicates (when set)
> that the processor supports software error recovery.
> env->mcg_cap 's value should be got from KVM as shown in the QEMU code[1], it
> indicates whether the KVM support software error recovery.
>
> [1]:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ret = kvm_get_mce_cap_supported(cs->kvm_state, &mcg_cap, &banks);
> if (ret < 0) {
> fprintf(stderr, "kvm_get_mce_cap_supported: %s", strerror(-ret));
> return ret;
> }
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes, but if you look at the code which calls that, it
goes on to do:
env->mcg_cap &= mcg_cap | MCG_CAP_BANKS_MASK;
which means that if the host kernel does not support this
feature then we will clear those bits in the env->mcg_cap
field, so we do not advertise it to the guest. But we might
be not advertising it to the guest at all, if env->mcg_cap
was 0 before this code was called. That happens if we
are presenting the guest with a guest CPU type which does
not have the feature.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> void kvm_arch_on_sigbus_vcpu(CPUState *c, int code, void *addr)
> {
> ...........................
>
> if (ram_addr != RAM_ADDR_INVALID &&
> kvm_physical_memory_addr_from_host(c->kvm_state, addr, &paddr)) {
>
> If it got to here, it means the host hardware detects a RAS error in memory
> used by the guest using above two judgments.
> Maybe we can test/check whether KVM supports software error recovery in [3]
>
The question is not "does the host CPU / KVM support error
reporting". It is "does the *guest* CPU / system support
error reporting". These are distinct questions which may
not have the same answer.
thanks
-- PMM
