> -----Original Message----- > From: Wood Scott-B07421 > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:56 AM > To: Yoder Stuart-B08248 > Cc: Alexander Graf; Bhushan Bharat-R65777; Wood Scott-B07421; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx list; kvm- > ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: RFC: proposal for VM reset & shutdown hcall (v2) > > On 07/02/2013 10:33:58 AM, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote: > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Alexander Graf [mailto:agraf@xxxxxxx] > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 10:23 AM > > > To: Yoder Stuart-B08248 > > > Cc: Bhushan Bharat-R65777; Wood Scott-B07421; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > list; kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: Re: RFC: proposal for VM reset & shutdown hcall (v2) > > > > > > On 07/02/2013 05:07 PM, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote: > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Advertising reset and shutdown in device tree. > > > > > > > > A virtual machine can detect the availability of the reset > > > > and shutdown hcalls by looking at properties on the /hypervisor > > > > node. > > > > > > > > Property name: has-reset > > > > > > I don't remember how ePAPR specifies this. Aren't keys in > > /hypervisor > > > supposed to be common throughout hypervisors? So if Windriver wants > > to > > > add a reset hypercall, they'd also add "has-reset"? How does the > > guest > > > know which hcall number to issue? > > > > ePAPR does not define how additional hypervisor specific properties > > are defined. > > > > Since these are KVM-specific hcalls we should probably not name these > > generically and call them kvm-has-reset and kvm-has-shutdown. > > kvm,has-reset and kvm,has-shutdown would be more stylistically correct. > > This assumes that we're going to put this in Documentation/virtual/kvm/ > -- otherwise the prefix should be "qemu". Will make it "kvm," Stuart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
