From: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>,
Peng Hao <peng.hao2@zte.com.cn>
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] pvpanic : update pvpanic document
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:32:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1603891979-11961-6-git-send-email-mihai.carabas@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1603891979-11961-1-git-send-email-mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
From: Peng Hao <peng.hao2@zte.com.cn>
Add mmio mode as a pci device support info in docs/specs/pvpanic.txt.
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..4258922 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 PCI device.
+
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.
+PCI Interface
+-------------
+
+The PCI interface is similar to the ISA interface except that it uses an MMIO
+address space provided by its BAR0. For example, the arm virt machine may
+enable a pvpanic device by adding '-device pvpanic-pci' to the command line.
+
ACPI Interface
--------------
--
1.8.3.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-28 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-28 13:32 [PATCH] Add support for pvpanic pci device Mihai Carabas
2020-10-28 13:32 ` [PATCH 1/6] hw/misc/pvpanic: Build the pvpanic device for any machine Mihai Carabas
2020-12-14 10:47 ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-14 10:54 ` Peter Maydell
2020-10-28 13:32 ` [PATCH 2/6] hw/misc/pvpanic: Cosmetic renaming Mihai Carabas
2020-12-14 10:20 ` Peter Maydell
2020-10-28 13:32 ` [PATCH 3/6] hw/misc/pvpanic: Add the PCI interface Mihai Carabas
2020-12-14 10:58 ` Peter Maydell
2020-10-28 13:32 ` [PATCH 4/6] hw/arm/virt: Use the pvpanic pci device Mihai Carabas
2020-12-14 10:24 ` Peter Maydell
2020-10-28 13:32 ` Mihai Carabas [this message]
2020-12-14 10:30 ` [PATCH 5/6] pvpanic : update pvpanic document Peter Maydell
2020-10-28 13:32 ` [PATCH 6/6] pvpanic: break dependency on ISA_BUS adding PCI Mihai Carabas
2020-10-29 12:30 ` [PATCH] Add support for pvpanic pci device Mihai Carabas
2020-11-23 13:42 ` Mihai Carabas
2020-12-14 11:03 ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-14 11:15 ` Mihai Carabas
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