From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 14/19] kvm: add a reset capability Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:56:16 +0300 Message-ID: <49E0CBB0.9030105@redhat.com> References: <20090409155200.32740.19358.stgit@dev.haskins.net> <20090409163155.32740.50340.stgit@dev.haskins.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, agraf@suse.de, pmullaney@novell.com, pmorreale@novell.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, bhutchings@solarflare.com, andi@firstfloor.org, gregkh@suse.de, herber@gondor.apana.org.au, chrisw@sous-sol.org, shemminger@vyatta.com To: Gregory Haskins Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090409163155.32740.50340.stgit@dev.haskins.net> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Gregory Haskins wrote: > We need a way to detect if a VM is reset later in the series, so lets > add a capability for userspace to signal a VM reset down to the kernel. > As I mentioned, this won't be reliable. It needs to be driven from userspace and be per-device. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.