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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>,
	heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com, borntrae@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Olaf Schnapper <os@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] kvm-s390: Fix printk on SIGP set arch
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:58:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49785F81.3030704@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090122124436.7fe42e85@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>

Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:26:11 +0100
> Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Am Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:17:07 +0100
>> schrieb heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com:
>>     
>>> Why don't you just remove the printk? IMHO it's rather pointless.
>>>       
>> It is'nt: It infoms the user why his guest is going to crash
>> even though it has performed an operation that is perfectly
>> legal according to the spec.
>>     
>
> If you have hundreds of guests running, how do you get the connection
> from this message to a specific user process?
>
> Informing a user process that it did something that isn't allowed or
> supported is usually done by returning an appropriate return code.
>   

Right, either inject an exception to the guest (if appropriate for the 
arch), or return -ESOMETHING from ioctl(KVM_RUN).

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


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-22 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-22  9:26 [PATCH 0/3] kvm-s390: three kernel fixes Christian Borntraeger
2009-01-22  9:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] kvm-s390: Fix printk on SIGP set arch Christian Borntraeger
2009-01-22 11:17   ` Heiko Carstens
2009-01-22 11:26     ` Carsten Otte
2009-01-22 11:44       ` Heiko Carstens
2009-01-22 11:58         ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-01-22 12:14           ` Carsten Otte
2009-01-22 13:20           ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] " Christian Borntraeger
2009-01-22 14:23             ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-22 11:41   ` [PATCH 1/3] " Amit Shah
2009-01-22  9:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] kvm-s390: Fix problem state check for b2 intercepts Christian Borntraeger
2009-01-22  9:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] kvm-s390: Fix SIGP set prefix ioctl Christian Borntraeger

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