From: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>,
peter.maydell@linaro.org, kraxel@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] pvpanic : update pvpanic spec document
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:34:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1610735646-13313-4-git-send-email-mihai.carabas@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1610735646-13313-1-git-send-email-mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
Add pvpanic PCI device support details in docs/specs/pvpanic.txt.
Signed-off-by: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
---
docs/specs/pvpanic.txt | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt b/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt
index a90fbca..974aafd 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 as a
+PCI device.
+
ISA Interface
-------------
@@ -24,6 +27,14 @@ 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, 1 byte long. Any machine with a PCI device
+can 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:[~2021-01-15 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-15 18:34 [PATCH v3] Add support for pvpanic pci device Mihai Carabas
2021-01-15 18:34 ` [PATCH 1/4] hw/misc/pvpanic: split-out generic and bus dependent code Mihai Carabas
2021-01-19 13:12 ` Peter Maydell
2021-01-15 18:34 ` [PATCH 2/4] hw/misc/pvpanic: add PCI interface support Mihai Carabas
2021-01-18 10:00 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2021-01-19 13:14 ` Peter Maydell
2021-01-20 11:57 ` Yan Vugenfirer
2021-01-20 12:49 ` Mihai Carabas
2021-01-20 13:43 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2021-01-20 14:05 ` Mihai Carabas
2021-01-15 18:34 ` Mihai Carabas [this message]
2021-01-18 10:32 ` [PATCH 3/4] pvpanic : update pvpanic spec document Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-01-18 14:36 ` Mihai Carabas
2021-01-19 13:17 ` Peter Maydell
2021-01-15 18:34 ` [PATCH 4/4] tests/qtest: add a test case for pvpanic-pci Mihai Carabas
2021-01-18 7:42 ` Thomas Huth
2021-01-19 13:16 ` Peter Maydell
2021-01-19 13:29 ` [PATCH v3] Add support for pvpanic pci device Peter Maydell
2021-01-19 15:44 ` Peter Maydell
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