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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix emergency_restart (sysrq-b) with kvm loaded on
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:27:14 +0200
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* Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:

>> reboot was always a bit fragile - i think we should only do that if 
>> we find a box where the FADT reset works better than the first-wave 
>> approaches we try.
>
> It worked on my host.  Since it will fall back to keyboard reset and 
> triple fault, it seems fairly safe.

... except if it hangs in ACPI/SMM code for whatever reason.

	Ingo