linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix emergency_restart (sysrq-b) with kvm loaded on Intel hosts

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Message-ID: <20080825102714.GA15810@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:27:14 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix emergency_restart (sysrq-b) with kvm loaded on
	Intel hosts


* Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com> wrote:

>> reboot was always a bit fragile - i think we should only do that if 
>> we find a box where the FADT reset works better than the first-wave 
>> approaches we try.
>
> It worked on my host.  Since it will fall back to keyboard reset and 
> triple fault, it seems fairly safe.

... except if it hangs in ACPI/SMM code for whatever reason.

	Ingo
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