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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: paravirt_ops.safe_halt vs .halt?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:32:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4512F6D1.60902@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060921194415.GA2811@sequoia.sous-sol.org>

Chris Wright wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org) wrote:
>   
>> What's paravirt_ops.halt for?  Is it the non-safe equivalent to 
>> safe_halt, or is it intended for shutting down the machine?  It doesn't 
>> seem to be used anywhere.
>>     
>
> It's called from halt().  Xen should be using it to down the cpu.
>   

Wonder if we shouldn't give it a less ambigious name...  Or rename 
safe_halt to block() or something.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-21 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-21 19:30 paravirt_ops.safe_halt vs .halt? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-21 19:44 ` Chris Wright
2006-09-21 20:32   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-09-21 20:58     ` Zachary Amsden

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