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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: poweroff in 3.2 and 3.3
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:00:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C54AC9B2.1F6CE%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0A882F4D99BBF6449D58E61AAFD7EDD601E23B3F@pdsmsx502.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On 20/11/08 02:39, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com> wrote:

> However I'm considering the point whether Xen can simply reject the
> s3 request, when observing non-current vcpus still alive. Domain can
> be in trouble if unaware of underlying sleep phase, such time keeping
> and softlockup warning. More seriously, domain with passthrough
> devices can't recover device state since it's even not notified to save
> context. Opinions?

What would you warn on?
 - VCPUs still exist?
 - VCPUs still online?
 - VCPUs not paused?
 - VCPUs not 'paused_by_system_controller'?

I'm not sure what the WARN_ON() condition would be. A forceful
domain_pause()/vcpu_pause() is a good idea anyway.

 -- Keir

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-20  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-19 13:18 poweroff in 3.2 and 3.3 Jan Beulich
2008-11-19 13:21 ` Keir Fraser
2008-11-20  2:39   ` Tian, Kevin
2008-11-20  8:00     ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2008-11-20  8:11       ` Tian, Kevin
2008-11-20  8:16         ` Keir Fraser
2008-11-20  8:21           ` Tian, Kevin
2008-11-20  8:51             ` Keir Fraser
2008-11-20  8:56               ` Tian, Kevin
2008-11-20  8:18     ` Jan Beulich
2008-11-20  8:18       ` Keir Fraser
2008-11-20  8:30         ` Jan Beulich
2008-11-20  8:36           ` Tian, Kevin
2008-11-20  8:19       ` Tian, Kevin
2008-11-20  8:31         ` Jan Beulich
2008-11-20  8:23       ` Tian, Kevin

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