[libvirt] pvpanic plans?
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at redhat.com
Thu Oct 31 14:47:29 UTC 2013
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:32:43AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/31/2013 08:30 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:39:03AM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I know it's been a long time since this thread. But qemu 1.7 is
> >> releasing, do you have any consensus on this?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >
> >
> > I think the biggest issue is the new PANICKED state.
> > Guests already have simple ways to halt the CPU,
> > and actually do. I think a new state was a mistake.
> > So how about the following? Does it break anything?
> > (Untested).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/misc/pvpanic.c b/hw/misc/pvpanic.c
> > index 226e298..2055afc 100644
> > --- a/hw/misc/pvpanic.c
> > +++ b/hw/misc/pvpanic.c
> > @@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ static void handle_event(int event)
> >
> > if (event & PVPANIC_PANICKED) {
> > panicked_mon_event("pause");
> > - vm_stop(RUN_STATE_GUEST_PANICKED);
>
> Don't you still need to halt the guest on a panic event, for management
> to have a chance to choose what to do about the panic?
Guest can just call hlt to do this. Most guests do this on a panic
already.
> I'm suspecting
> this patch does break things.
http://xkcd.com/1172/
> --
> Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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