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From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 01/11] xen: introduce SHUTDOWN_soft_reset
	shutdown reason
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 10:42:38 +0200
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Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> writes:

> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk writes ("Re: [PATCH v8 01/11] xen: introduce SHUTDOWN_soft_reset shutdown reason"):
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 06:11:43PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> > This special type of shutdown is supposed to be used by PVHVM guests when
>> > they want to perform some sort of kexec/kdump.
> ...
>> > +#define SHUTDOWN_soft_reset 5  /* Domain did soft reset. Clean up and resume.*/
>
> I would like more documentation about the semantics of this new
> request.  (The semantics of the existing shutdown requests are fairly
> well understood because they generally map to real hardware.)

Sure,

would you like me to expand the comment here or should I write something
somewhere else?

Thanks,

-- 
  Vitaly