On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 01:55:26PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote: > With watchdog action=dump the actual watchdog action is set to pause and > the daemon then proceeds to dump the process. After that the domain is > resumed. That was the case since the feature was added. However the > resuming of the domain might be unexpected, especially when compared to > HW watchdog, which will never run the guest from the point where it got > interrupted. > > Document the pre-existing behaviour, since any change might be > unexpected as well. Change of behaviour would require new options like > dump+reset, dump+pause, etc. That option is still possible, but > orthogonal to this change. > > Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-753 > Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > docs/formatdomain.rst | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst > index 4336cff3ac05..e6f09a728f0f 100644 > --- a/docs/formatdomain.rst > +++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst > @@ -7914,7 +7914,8 @@ southbridge, which is used with the q35 machine type. :since:`Since 9.1.0` > - 'poweroff' - forcefully power off the guest > - 'pause' - pause the guest > - 'none' - do nothing > - - 'dump' - automatically dump the guest :since:`Since 0.8.7` > + - 'dump' - automatically dump the guest, beware that after the > + dump the guest will be resumed :since:`Since 0.8.7` > - 'inject-nmi' - inject a non-maskable interrupt into the guest > :since:`Since 1.2.17` Acked-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW
