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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix emergency_restart (sysrq-b) with kvm loaded on	Intel hosts
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:03:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B28367.2040500@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080825093020.GA5617@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote:

  

>> I'm a little worried about making emergency restart more complex.
>>
>> Another thing that worries me is that emergency_restart() doesn't 
>> reset the box -- it sends INIT.  We could do better by using the ACPI 
>> FADT reset register (hopefully that's connected to RESET).
>>     
>
> 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.

>> Which seems to be what we want? Maybe we should just try acpi_reboot() 
>> before the other stuff.
>>     
>
> perhaps in a separate commit, for v2.6.28 at the earliest.
>   

I'll send a patch.  I don't think my earlier patch is worthwhile as all 
machines with VT are acpi capable.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-25 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-25  9:11 [PATCH] Fix emergency_restart (sysrq-b) with kvm loaded on Intel hosts Avi Kivity
2008-08-25  9:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-25  9:27   ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-25  9:30     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-25 10:03       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-08-25 10:27         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-25 10:36           ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-25 13:12   ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-08-25 13:35     ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-25 13:14   ` Eric W. Biederman

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