Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Sep 2015 09:08:51 -0400 | From | Boris Ostrovsky <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] xen/pvhvm: add soft reset on kexec/kdump support |
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On 09/29/2015 07:39 AM, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> writes: > >> On 09/25/2015 03:35 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 03:19:57PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: >>>> On 09/25/2015 03:01 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 01:17:40PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: >>>>>> On 09/25/2015 12:07 PM, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: >>>>>>>> Also, I am not sure I see how this new op will be used in the >>>>>>>> hypervisor --- currently AFAICS it is only processed under >>>>>>>> is_hardware_domain(). Are there other patches that will support HVM >>>>>>>> guests? >>>>>>> Please see my Xen series: >>>>>>> http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-09/msg00547.html >>>>>>> (last 'full' submission). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> All patches from my 'toolstack-assisted approach to PVHVM guest kexec' >>>>>>> are already merged to xen.git (first 10 are already in 'master' and the >>>>>>> last one is in 'staging'). >>>>>>> >>>>>> OK, so I was looking at the right tree. Then I don't understand how >>>>>> SHUTDOWN_soft_reset would be reached for a non-privileged domain. The only >>>>>> path that I see is >>>>>> >>>>>> domain_shutdown() >>>>>> { >>>>>> ... >>>>>> if ( is_hardware_domain(d) ) >>>>>> hwdom_shutdown(reason); >>>>>> ... >>>>>> } >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there another path to handle this op? >>>>> Yes: >>>>> e1bd9812966de9a16f30a58e7162b80bd6af361b libxc: support XEN_DOMCTL_soft_reset operation >>>>> and >>>>> c57e6ebd8c3e490e353e68d96abec1dad01e72f5 (lib)xl: soft reset support >>>>> >>>> That's toolstack issuing hypercalls from dom0. >>>> >>>> I am asking about (non-privileged) guest itself calling SCHEDOP_shutdown. >>> The hypervisor ends up calling: >>> __domain_finalise_shutdown which sends an VIRQ_DOM_EXC to dom0 which >>> makes the toolstack do all of those operations. >> OK. But the I don't see anyone checking that 'reason' (or >> 'shutdown_code') is SHUTDOWN_soft_reset. In other words, the guest can >> do 'xen_reboot(23)' or 'xen_reboot(154)'. Or, it seems, even >> 'xen_reboot(SHUTDOWN_reboot)'? The only value it shouldn't be is >> SHUTDOWN_suspend. > Xen hypervisor doesn't analyzie the reason, it is being analyzed by the > toolstack (XEN_DOMCTL_getdomaininfo returns this info encoded in flags > with XEN_DOMINF_shutdownshift shift).
Thanks.
My problem was that I didn't realize that toolstack generates macros for shutdown reasons from libxl_types.idl and I couldn't see who looks for SHUTDOWN_soft_reset.
-boris
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