On 07/27/2017 11:31 AM, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 27/06/17 19:21, Venu Busireddy wrote: >> This patch set is part of a set of patchs that together allow containment >> of unrecoverable AER errors from PCIe devices assigned to guests in >> passthrough mode. The containment is achieved by killing the guest and >> hiding the device upon receiving the fatal AER error. >> >> The Xen patch related to this patch is: >> >> https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-06/msg03269.html >> >> >> This patch stores in xenstore the <s:b:d.f> of the passed through device >> that triggered the AER unrecoverable error. This will allow xen (with a >> watcher setup to watch "aerFailedSBDF") to make the device unassignable >> until the next reboot or operator intervention using the xen tool stack. >> >> Note: >> When unrecoverable AER errors are detected from the PCIe devices >> assigned to guests in passthrough mode, BIOS's bring down the server, >> thus bringing down the entire hypervisor. For this patch set to work, >> the AER error handling needs to be delegated to the host operating system. >> >> Signed-off-by: Venu Busireddy <venu.busire...@oracle.com> >> Signed-off-by: Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimts...@oracle.com> > Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> >
Isn't this dependent on Xen-side patches? I think we should wait until those are accepted (if nothing else, the watch name should be agreed upon). -boris _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
