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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Reboot CPU on triple fault
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Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>

Paul Brook wrote:
>> +    if (env->old_exception == EXCP08_DBLE) {
>> +        fprintf(stderr, "qemu: warning: triple fault\n");
>>     
>
> IMHO There's no reason to print a message to stderr. This is all well defined 
> behavior, and the accepted way of exiting from 286 protected mode.
>   

Moreover, it's a standard means of rebooting in the absence of APM or 
ACPI.  See native_machine_emergency_restart() in 
arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c in Linux.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paul
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