From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Yoder Stuart-B08248 <B08248@freescale.com>
Cc: Wood Scott-B07421 <B07421@freescale.com>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
Bhushan Bharat-R65777 <R65777@freescale.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: proposal for VM reset hcall
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 12:32:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1372699922.8183.88@snotra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9F6FE96B71CF29479FF1CDC8046E150363289A@039-SN1MPN1-004.039d.mgd.msft.net> (from B08248@freescale.com on Mon Jul 1 12:28:34 2013)
On 07/01/2013 12:28:34 PM, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 11:49 AM
> > To: Yoder Stuart-B08248
> > Cc: Alexander Graf; Wood Scott-B07421; Bhushan Bharat-R65777;
> kvm@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: RFC: proposal for VM reset hcall
> >
> > On 07/01/2013 10:56:54 AM, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:
> > > For the e500 PV platform we need a VM reset mechanisms.
> > >
> > > Hypercall: KVM_HC_VM_RESET
> > > Description: Requests that the virtual machine be reset. The
> > > hcall takes no arguments. If successful the hcall
> does
> > > not
> > > return.
> > >
> > > Arguments:
> > > r11 hcall-token KVM_HC_VM_RESET
> > >
> > > Return values
> > > r3 status Status of the hcall. If the hcall
> succeeds
> > > it does not return. If an error occurs
> > > EV_INTERNAL is returned.
> > >
> > >
> > > Implementation notes:
> > >
> > > -expect hcall token to be defined with
> > > KVM_HCALL_TOKEN(KVM_HC_VM_RESET)
> > >
> > > -the KVM_HC_FEATURES hcall should be expanded with a new
> feature
> > > bit
> > > to advertise the reset hcall to the VM: #define
> > > KVM_FEATURE_VM_RESET
> >
> > What about shutdown rather than reset?
>
> 'Shutdown' means something completely to me than 'reset',
> and doesn't imply a reboot or reset. I think the name
> should be reset/restart/reboot.
My point is that Alex talked about wanting both reboot and shutdown
support. I wasn't suggesting a name change.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-01 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-01 15:56 RFC: proposal for VM reset hcall Yoder Stuart-B08248
2013-07-01 16:48 ` Scott Wood
2013-07-01 17:28 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2013-07-01 17:32 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2013-07-01 17:44 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2013-07-01 19:45 ` Alexander Graf
2013-07-01 19:58 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2013-07-01 20:01 ` Alexander Graf
2013-07-01 20:02 ` Alexander Graf
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