From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wen Congyang Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:04:38 +0800 Message-ID: <4F5DBC26.7060204@cn.fujitsu.com> References: <4F58664D.1070800@cn.fujitsu.com> <4F58943E.1050402@redhat.com> <4F595B31.9090301@cn.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm list , qemu-devel , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Daniel P. Berrange" , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Jan Kiszka , Gleb Natapov To: Avi Kivity Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F595B31.9090301@cn.fujitsu.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org At 03/09/2012 09:21 AM, Wen Congyang Wrote: > At 03/08/2012 07:13 PM, Avi Kivity Wrote: >> On 03/08/2012 09:57 AM, Wen Congyang wrote: >>> We can know the guest is paniced when the guest runs on xen. >>> But we do not have such feature on kvm. >>> >>> Another purpose of this feature is: management app(for example: >>> libvirt) can do auto dump when the guest is crashed. If management >>> app does not do auto dump, the guest's user can do dump by hand if >>> he sees the guest is paniced. >>> >>> I touch the hypervisor instead of using virtio-serial, because >>> 1. it is simple >>> 2. the virtio-serial is an optional device, and the guest may >>> not have such device. >>> >>> Changes from v2 to v3: >>> 1. correct spelling >>> >>> Changes from v1 to v2: >>> 1. split up host and guest-side changes >>> 2. introduce new request flag to avoid changing return values. >> >> I see no Documentation/ changes. Do you have any other comments about this patch? > > What shoude be writen into Documentation/? I read the documents under > Documentation/virtual/kvm, not all KVM_EXIT_* are writen in api.txt. > In this patch set, I introduce a new exit_reason: KVM_EXIT_GUEST_PANICKED, > but I donot know where I should write. What about this? Thanks Wen Congyang > > Thanks > Wen Congyang > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >