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Message-ID: <4F5732FB.5040208@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:05:47 +0800
From:	Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
CC:	kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@...hat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] deal with guest paniced event

At 03/07/2012 05:53 PM, Jan Kiszka Wrote:
> On 2012-03-07 02:58, Wen Congyang wrote:
>> When the host knows the guest is paniced, it will set
>> exit_reason to KVM_EXIT_GUEST_PANICED. So if qemu receive
>> this exit_reason, we can send a event to tell management
>> application that the guest is paniced and set the guest
>> status to RUN_STATE_PANICED.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>>  kvm-all.c                 |    4 ++++
>>  linux-headers/linux/kvm.h |    1 +
>>  monitor.c                 |    3 +++
>>  monitor.h                 |    1 +
>>  qapi-schema.json          |    2 +-
>>  qmp.c                     |    3 ++-
>>  vl.c                      |    1 +
>>  7 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c
>> index c4babda..d356948 100644
>> --- a/kvm-all.c
>> +++ b/kvm-all.c
>> @@ -1190,6 +1190,10 @@ int kvm_cpu_exec(CPUState *env)
>>                      (uint64_t)run->hw.hardware_exit_reason);
>>              ret = -1;
>>              break;
>> +        case KVM_EXIT_GUEST_PANICED:
>> +            monitor_protocol_event(QEVENT_GUEST_PANICED, NULL);
>> +            vm_stop(RUN_STATE_PANICED);
>> +            break;
> 
> This cannot work. You missed to set ret to -1 to break out of loop.

I fotgot to do it. But it works fine while I test this patch. I
think ret has set to 0 before I guest is panicked.

> 
>>          case KVM_EXIT_INTERNAL_ERROR:
>>              ret = kvm_handle_internal_error(env, run);
>>              break;
>> diff --git a/linux-headers/linux/kvm.h b/linux-headers/linux/kvm.h
>> index f6b5343..ddc9716 100644
>> --- a/linux-headers/linux/kvm.h
>> +++ b/linux-headers/linux/kvm.h
>> @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ struct kvm_pit_config {
>>  #define KVM_EXIT_OSI              18
>>  #define KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL	  19
>>  #define KVM_EXIT_S390_UCONTROL	  20
>> +#define KVM_EXIT_GUEST_PANICED	  21
> 
> Linux header must be sync'ed in a separate patch, referencing the
> upstream (typically kvm.git) commit hash that was used as base. Make
> sure to use the update-linux-headers.sh script for this.
> 
> So the ordering is: Get the kernel changes accepted, then push the
> (final) user space patches. That said, a patch like this can still be
> posted in advance for informational purposes, but not for application.

OK.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

> 
> Jan
> 

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