Re: [PATCH v13 2/8] start vm after resetting it

Hu Tao
2013-03-05T03:26:28Z

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:23:42PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2013-02-28 13:13, Hu Tao wrote:
> > From: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
> >
> > The guest should run after resetting it, but it does not run if its
> > old state is RUN_STATE_INTERNAL_ERROR or RUN_STATE_PAUSED.
> >
> > We don't set runstate to RUN_STATE_PAUSED when resetting the guest,
> > so the runstate will be changed from RUN_STATE_INTERNAL_ERROR or
> > RUN_STATE_PAUSED to RUN_STATE_RUNNING(not RUN_STATE_PAUSED).
>
> I just wonder what will happen if I interrupted the guest via gdb and
> then issue "monitor system_reset", also via gdb - common pattern if you
> set a breakpoint on some BUG() or fault handler and then want to restart
> the guest. Will the guest continue then while gdb thinks it is still
> stopped? Likely, we do not differentiate between gdb-initiated stops and
> the rest. Could you clarify?

Guest won't continue unless issue gdb "continue". Anyway, I'll seperate
this patch, as Paolo requested.