From: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann@caviumnetworks.com>,
David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] MIPS: paravirt: Provide _machine_halt function to exit VM on shutdown of guest
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 00:18:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3222538.mhZJm7FgWx@radagast> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140528220418.GA6335@alberich>
On Thursday 29 May 2014 00:04:18 Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:44:49PM +0100, James Hogan wrote:
> > On 20/05/14 15:47, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann@caviumnetworks.com>
> >
> > Does it make sense to provide a _machine_restart too?
>
> Hmm, I've not seen a real need for this so far.
> (Halting the guest and relaunching it from the shell with lkvm was fast
> enough for my tests ;-)
>
> But it's worth to get it working. I might be wrong but I think that
> this requires lkvm changes to actually handle the reboot.
Fair enough. No point implementing something that can't be used/tested yet. If
QEMU gets support for paravirt, it can be done then.
Cheers
James
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-28 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-20 14:47 [PATCH 00/15] MIPS: Add mips_paravirt Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 01/15] MIPS: OCTEON: Enable use of FPU Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 02/15] MIPS: Move system level config items from CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON to CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 03/15] MIPS: OCTEON: Move CAVIUM_OCTEON_CVMSEG_SIZE to CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 22:52 ` James Hogan
2014-05-20 23:23 ` David Daney
2014-05-21 6:22 ` Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 04/15] MIPS: Don't use RI/XI with 32-bit kernels on 64-bit CPUs Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 05/15] MIPS: Don't build fast TLB refill handler with 32-bit kernels Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-21 9:38 ` James Hogan
2014-05-21 13:04 ` Ralf Baechle
2014-05-21 13:17 ` Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 06/15] MIPS: Add minimal support for OCTEON3 to c-r4k.c Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-21 10:04 ` James Hogan
2014-05-21 16:10 ` David Daney
2014-05-21 12:40 ` Ralf Baechle
2014-05-21 21:02 ` Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-22 7:59 ` Ralf Baechle
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 07/15] MIPS: Add mips_cpunum() function Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-21 11:10 ` James Hogan
2014-05-22 16:13 ` Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-22 16:15 ` James Hogan
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 08/15] MIPS: OCTEON: Add OCTEON3 to __get_cpu_type Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 09/15] MIPS: Add functions for hypervisor call Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-21 0:16 ` James Hogan
2014-05-21 7:30 ` Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 10/15] MIPS: Add code for new system 'paravirt' Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-21 13:39 ` James Hogan
2014-05-21 16:31 ` David Daney
2014-05-21 16:46 ` James Hogan
2014-05-23 20:31 ` Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-22 16:54 ` Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-23 20:28 ` Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-23 21:47 ` Ralf Baechle
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 11/15] MIPS: paravirt: Add pci controller for virtio Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-21 11:42 ` James Hogan
2014-05-22 20:17 ` Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-28 22:10 ` Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-21 13:34 ` Ralf Baechle
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 12/15] MIPS: Enable build for new system 'paravirt' Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 13/15] MIPS: Add defconfig for mips_paravirt Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 23:14 ` James Hogan
2014-05-21 6:29 ` Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 14/15] MIPS: paravirt: Update mips_paravirt_defconfig Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 23:17 ` James Hogan
2014-05-21 6:36 ` Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-20 14:47 ` [PATCH 15/15] MIPS: paravirt: Provide _machine_halt function to exit VM on shutdown of guest Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-21 13:44 ` James Hogan
2014-05-28 22:04 ` Andreas Herrmann
2014-05-28 23:18 ` James Hogan [this message]
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