On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 08/09/14 09:17, Anup Patel wrote:
>> The KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT exit reason was added to define
>> architecture independent system-wide events for a Guest.
>>
>> Currently, it is used by in-kernel PSCI-0.2 emulation of
>> KVM ARM/ARM64 to inform user space about PSCI SYSTEM_OFF
>> or PSCI SYSTEM_RESET request.
>>
>> For now, we simply treat all system-wide guest events as
>> shutdown request in KVMTOOL.
>
> Is that really a good idea to default to exit_kvm?
> I find a shutdown a rather drastic default.
> Also I'd like to see RESET not easily mapped to shutdown. If the user
> resets the box explicitly, it's probably expected to come up again (to
> load an updated kernel or proceed with an install).
Absolutely correct but we don't have VM reboot API in KVMTOOL
so I choose this route.
> So what about a more explicit message like: "... please restart the VM"
> until we gain proper reboot support in kvmtool?
Sure, I will print additional info for reset event such as:
INFO: VM reboot support not available
INFO: Please restart the VM manually
Regards,
Anup
>
> Regards,
> Andre.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> tools/kvm/kvm-cpu.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/kvm/kvm-cpu.c b/tools/kvm/kvm-cpu.c
>> index ee0a8ec..6d01192 100644
>> --- a/tools/kvm/kvm-cpu.c
>> +++ b/tools/kvm/kvm-cpu.c
>> @@ -160,6 +160,25 @@ int kvm_cpu__start(struct kvm_cpu *cpu)
>> goto exit_kvm;
>> case KVM_EXIT_SHUTDOWN:
>> goto exit_kvm;
>> + case KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT:
>> + /*
>> + * Print the type of system event and
>> + * treat all system events as shutdown request.
>> + */
>> + switch (cpu->kvm_run->system_event.type) {
>> + case KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_SHUTDOWN:
>> + printf(" # Info: shutdown system event\n");
>> + break;
>> + case KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_RESET:
>> + printf(" # Info: reset system event\n");
>> + break;
>> + default:
>> + printf(" # Warning: unknown system event type=%d\n",
>> + cpu->kvm_run->system_event.type);
>> + break;
>> + };
>> + printf(" # Info: exiting KVMTOOL\n");
>> + goto exit_kvm;
>> default: {
>> bool ret;
>>
>>
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