From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] virtio: provide a way for host to monitor critical events in the device Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:26:33 +0200 Message-ID: <500E9479.3050405@gmail.com> References: <1343075561-29316-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <20120724074434.GE26120@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, mst@redhat.com, penberg@kernel.org, asias.hejun@gmail.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws, wency@cn.fujitsu.com To: Gleb Natapov Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120724074434.GE26120@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 07/24/2012 09:44 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:32:39PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote: >> As it was discussed recently, there's currently no way for the guest to notify >> the host about panics. Further more, there's no reasonable way to notify the >> host of other critical events such as an OOM kill. >> >> This short patch series introduces a new device named virtio-notifier which >> does two simple things: >> >> 1. Provide a simple interface for the guest to notify the host of critical > To get early OOPSes virtio will have to be compiled into the kernel. If > your are so keen on using virtio for this though, why not just use > dedicated virtio serial channel? Let's separate between having log for these events and receiving notifications about them. For the log part, I can already run a simple serial console to dump everything somewhere. I'm more concerned about having notifications about something critical happening when the guest is already up and running.