linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] Add RAS virtualization support for SEA/SEI notification type in KVM

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Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2017 19:29:25 +0800
From:   gengdongjiu <gengdongjiu@...wei.com>
To:     Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@...aro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] Add RAS virtualization support for SEA/SEI
 notification type in KVM

Hi Peter,

On 2017/9/6 19:19, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 28 August 2017 at 11:38, Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@...wei.com> wrote:
>> In the firmware-first RAS solution, corrupt data is detected in a
>> memory location when guest OS application software executing at EL0
>> or guest OS kernel El1 software are reading from the memory. The
>> memory node records errors in an error record accessible using
>> system registers.
> 
> Hi Dongjiu -- it looks like this patch set is extending
> the API KVM provides to userspace, but it doesn't update
> the documentation in Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt.
> I appreciate the API is still somewhat under discussion,
> but if you can include the docs updates it's helpful to
> me for reviewing whether the API makes sense from the
> userspace consumer end of it.

sure, it should. thanks a lot for the reminder. I will update the related docs
in my next patch set version.

> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
> 
> .
>