On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 04:04:51PM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote: > Shutdown requests are normally hardware dependent. > By extending pvpanic to also handle shutdown requests, guests can > submit such requests with an easily implementable and cross-platform > mechanism. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <tho...@t-8ch.de>
Okay I merged this to get us out of the bind. Pls post a fixup patch adding something like (to be implemented) so people reading this do not become confused. > --- > This patch was split out from my earlier pvpanic-shutdown series [0]. > The original series dropped the usage of the linux/pvpanic.h UAPI > header. > As we decided to keep the linux header [1] this first commit only adds > the spec definition. > Then a patch to Linux will add the new events to linux/pvpanic.h. > After this the rest of the changes to QEMU will be submitted again. > > [0] > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20240208-pvpanic-shutdown-v6-0-965580ac0...@t-8ch.de/ > [1] > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240213053953-mutt-send-email-...@kernel.org/ > --- > docs/specs/pvpanic.rst | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/docs/specs/pvpanic.rst b/docs/specs/pvpanic.rst > index f894bc19555f..61a80480edb8 100644 > --- a/docs/specs/pvpanic.rst > +++ b/docs/specs/pvpanic.rst > @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ bit 1 > a guest panic has happened and will be handled by the guest; > the host should record it or report it, but should not affect > the execution of the guest. > +bit 2 > + a regular guest shutdown has happened and should be processed by the host > > PCI Interface > ------------- > > --- > base-commit: f901bf11b3ddf852e591593b09b8aa7a177f9a0b > change-id: 20240310-pvpanic-shutdown-spec-4ea2172529e8 > > Best regards, > -- > Thomas Weißschuh <tho...@t-8ch.de>
