[PATCH v8 0/3] EEH Support for VFIO PCI Device

Gavin Shan gwshan at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Jun 6 10:56:46 EST 2014


On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 02:54:47PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
>On 05.06.14 08:36, Gavin Shan wrote:
>>The series of patches adds support EEH for PCI devices, which are passed
>>through to PowerKVM based guest via VFIO. The implementation is straightforward
>>based on the issues or problems we have to resolve to support EEH for PowerKVM
>>based guest.
>>
>>- Emulation for EEH RTAS requests. All EEH RTAS requests goes to QEMU firstly.
>>   If QEMU can't handle it, the request will be sent to host via newly introduced
>>   VFIO container IOCTL command (VFIO_EEH_OP) and gets handled in host kernel.
>>
>>The series of patches requires corresponding QEMU changes.
>
>Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
>

Thanks, Alex :)

>
>Alex
>



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