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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Gollub <gollub@b1-systems.de>,
	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:09:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E0051B1.8060801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110621060251.GB491@redhat.com>

On 06/21/2011 09:02 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 07:34:57PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >  >The only two things which came to my mind are:
> >  >
> >  >   * NMI (aka. ipmitool diag) - already available in qemu/kvm - but requires
> >  >     in-guest kexec/kdump
> >  >   * Hardware-Watchdog (also available in qemu/libvirt)
> >
> >  A watchdog has the advantage that is also detects lockups.
> >
> And has disadvantage that all time base heuristics are bite us in the
> end.

The perf-based watchdog counts clocks-not-halted, not time, so it is 
safe from time issues.  We could make the hardware watchdog cheat in the 
same way.

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


  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-21  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-20 13:38 [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall Daniel Gollub
2011-06-20 13:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] Inroduce panic hypercall KVM_HC_PANIC (host) Daniel Gollub
2011-06-20 13:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] Call KVM_HC_PANIC if guest panics Daniel Gollub
2011-06-20 15:31 ` [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall Avi Kivity
2011-06-20 15:38   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-06-20 15:45     ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-20 15:59       ` Jan Kiszka
2011-06-20 16:26       ` Daniel Gollub
2011-06-20 16:34         ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-20 17:13           ` Jan Kiszka
2011-06-20 17:23             ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-21  6:04               ` Gleb Natapov
2011-06-21  6:02           ` Gleb Natapov
2011-06-21  8:09             ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-06-21  8:41               ` Gleb Natapov
2011-06-21  8:56                 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-21  9:03                   ` Gleb Natapov
2011-06-21  9:07                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-21  9:30               ` shawn che
2011-06-20 19:28   ` Anthony Liguori

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