[PATCH v4 18/21] KVM: arm64: Handle RAS SErrors from EL1 on guest exit
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Mon Oct 30 22:55:19 PDT 2017
On Thu, Oct 19 2017 at 4:58:04 pm BST, James Morse <james.morse at arm.com> wrote:
> We expect to have firmware-first handling of RAS SErrors, with errors
> notified via an APEI method. For systems without firmware-first, add
> some minimal handling to KVM.
>
> There are two ways KVM can take an SError due to a guest, either may be a
> RAS error: we exit the guest due to an SError routed to EL2 by HCR_EL2.AMO,
> or we take an SError from EL2 when we unmask PSTATE.A from __guest_exit.
>
> For SError that interrupt a guest and are routed to EL2 the existing
> behaviour is to inject an impdef SError into the guest.
>
> Add code to handle RAS SError based on the ESR. For uncontained errors
> arm64_is_blocking_ras_serror() will panic(), these errors compromise
> the host too. All other error types are contained: For the 'blocking'
> errors the vCPU can't make progress, so we inject a virtual SError.
> We ignore contained errors where we can make progress as if we're lucky,
> we may not hit them again.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
M.
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