KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Exit guest upon MCE when FWNMI capability is enabled

Enhance KVM to cause a guest exit with KVM_EXIT_NMI
exit reason upon a machine check exception (MCE) in
the guest address space if the KVM_CAP_PPC_FWNMI
capability is enabled (instead of delivering a 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 delivery of machine
check exception to guest OS compared to the earlier
approach of KVM directly invoking 0x200 guest interrupt
vector.

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

Note:

This patch now directly invokes machine_check_print_event_info()
from kvmppc_handle_exit_hv() to print the event to host console
at the time of guest exit before the exception is passed on to the
guest. Hence, the host-side handling which was performed earlier
via machine_check_fwnmi is removed.

The reasons for this approach is (i) it is not possible
to distinguish whether the exception occurred in the
guest or the host from the pt_regs passed on the
machine_check_exception(). Hence machine_check_exception()
calls panic, instead of passing on the exception to
the guest, if the machine check exception is not
recoverable. (ii) the approach introduced in this
patch gives opportunity to the host kernel to perform
actions in virtual mode before passing on the exception
to the guest. This approach does not require complex
tweaks to machine_check_fwnmi and friends.

Signed-off-by: Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
index 07fbeb927834..8cf8f0c96906 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ struct kvm_regs {
 
 #define KVM_SREGS_E_FSL_PIDn	(1 << 0) /* PID1/PID2 */
 
+/* flags for kvm_run.flags */
+#define KVM_RUN_PPC_NMI_DISP_MASK		(3 << 0)
+#define   KVM_RUN_PPC_NMI_DISP_FULLY_RECOV	(1 << 0)
+#define   KVM_RUN_PPC_NMI_DISP_LIMITED_RECOV	(2 << 0)
+#define   KVM_RUN_PPC_NMI_DISP_NOT_RECOV	(3 << 0)
+
 /*
  * Feature bits indicate which sections of the sregs struct are valid,
  * both in KVM_GET_SREGS and KVM_SET_SREGS.  On KVM_SET_SREGS, registers