From: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
To: peter.maydell@linaro.org, shannon.zhaosl@gmail.com,
mst@redhat.com, imammedo@redhat.com
Cc: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>,
Peng Hao <peng.hao2@zte.com.cn>,
qemu-arm@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] pvpanic : update pvpanic document
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:42:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1603352576-21671-8-git-send-email-mihai.carabas@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1603352576-21671-1-git-send-email-mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
From: Peng Hao <peng.hao2@zte.com.cn>
Add mmio support info in docs/specs/pvpanic.txt.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peng Hao <peng.hao2@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
---
docs/specs/pvpanic.txt | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt b/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt
index a90fbca..b50140b 100644
--- a/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt
+++ b/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
PVPANIC DEVICE
==============
-pvpanic device is a simulated ISA device, through which a guest panic
+pvpanic device is a simulated device, through which a guest panic
event is sent to qemu, and a QMP event is generated. This allows
management apps (e.g. libvirt) to be notified and respond to the event.
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ The management app has the option of waiting for GUEST_PANICKED events,
and/or polling for guest-panicked RunState, to learn when the pvpanic
device has fired a panic event.
+The pvpanic device can be implemented as an ISA device (using IOPORT),
+or, since qemu 4.0, as a SYSBUS device (using MMIO).
+
ISA Interface
-------------
@@ -24,6 +27,13 @@ bit 1: a guest panic has happened and will be handled by the guest;
the host should record it or report it, but should not affect
the execution of the guest.
+SYSBUS Interface
+----------------
+
+The SYSBUS interface is similar to the ISA interface except that it uses
+MMIO. For example, the arm virt machine could put the pvpanic device at
+[0x90b0000, 0x90b0001], where currently only the first byte is used.
+
ACPI Interface
--------------
--
1.8.3.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-22 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-22 7:42 [PATCH 0/8] Add support for pvpanic mmio device Mihai Carabas
2020-10-22 7:42 ` [PATCH 1/8] hw/misc/pvpanic: Build the pvpanic device for any machine Mihai Carabas
2020-10-22 7:42 ` [PATCH 2/8] hw/misc/pvpanic: Cosmetic renaming Mihai Carabas
2020-10-22 7:42 ` [PATCH 3/8] hw/misc/pvpanic: Add the MMIO interface Mihai Carabas
2020-10-22 7:42 ` [PATCH 4/8] hw/arm/virt: Use the pvpanic device Mihai Carabas
2020-10-22 7:42 ` [PATCH 5/8] hw/arm/virt: add pvpanic device in virt acpi table Mihai Carabas
2020-10-22 7:42 ` [PATCH 6/8] hw/arm/virt: add configure interface for pvpanic-mmio Mihai Carabas
2020-10-22 7:42 ` Mihai Carabas [this message]
2020-10-22 7:42 ` [PATCH 8/8] pvpanic: break dependency on ISA_BUS Mihai Carabas
2020-10-22 10:17 ` [PATCH 0/8] Add support for pvpanic mmio device Peter Maydell
2020-10-26 13:50 ` Mihai Carabas
2020-10-26 14:32 ` Peter Maydell
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