Re: RFC: proposal for VM reset & shutdown hcall

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On 01.07.2013, at 23:59, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:

> For the e500 PV platform we need a VM reset and shutdown mechanisms.

CC'ing kvm-ppc@vger.

> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Hypercall: KVM_HC_VM_RESET
> Description:  Requests that the virtual machine be reset.  The
>              hcall takes no arguments. If successful the hcall does not
>              return.
> 
> Arguments:
>     r11    hcall-token   KVM_HC_VM_RESET
> 
> Return values
>     r3     status        Status of the hcall.  If the hcall succeeds
>                          it does not return.  If an error occurs
>                          EV_INTERNAL is returned.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Hypercall: KVM_HC_VM_SHUTDOWN
> Description:  Requests that the virtual machine be powered-off/halted.
>              The hcall takes no arguments. If successful the hcall does not
>              return.
> 
> Arguments:
>     r11    hcall-token   KVM_HC_VM_SHUTDOWN
> 
> Return values
>     r3     status        Status of the hcall.  If the hcall succeeds
>                          it does not return.  If an error occurs
>                          EV_INTERNAL is returned.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Implementation notes:
> 
>   -expect hcall token to be defined with KVM_HCALL_TOKEN:
>       KVM_HC_VM_RESET
>       KVM_HC_VM_SHUTDOWN
> 
>   -the KVM_HC_FEATURES hcall should be expanded with new feature bits
>    to advertise both new hcalls to the VM: e.g.  #define KVM_FEATURE_VM_RESET

Do we really need this? Can't we just leave this up to device tree to tell the guest that this feature exists? After all, it's a pure user space matter whether it wants to support reboot & shutdown or not.


Alex

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