Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] hvm: Allow triple fault to imply crash rather than reboot

2016-11-07 Thread Xuquan (Quan Xu)
On November 07, 2016 9:13 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: >On 07/11/16 12:56, Xuquan (Quan Xu) wrote: >> 4) any ideas to reproduce triple fault? > >What do you mean by reproduce? Causing a triple fault is very easy from the >guest kernel. Yes, by reproduce.. indeed, we just implemented one when I sent o

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] hvm: Allow triple fault to imply crash rather than reboot

2016-11-07 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 07/11/16 12:56, Xuquan (Quan Xu) wrote: > On Feb 4, 2013, 6:25 AM, wrote: >> While the triple fault action on native hardware will result in a system >> reset, any modern operating system can and will make use of less violent >> reboot methods. As a result, the most likely cause of a triple fau

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] hvm: Allow triple fault to imply crash rather than reboot

2016-11-07 Thread Xuquan (Quan Xu)
On Feb 4, 2013, 6:25 AM, wrote: > While the triple fault action on native hardware will result in a system > reset, any modern operating system can and will make use of less violent > reboot methods. As a result, the most likely cause of a triple fault is a > fatal software bug. > > This patch all