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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: paravirt_ops.safe_halt vs .halt?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:32:17 -0700
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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