On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 03:52:48PM +0000, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 08:10:48AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: > > I've just had to deal with an early boot crash of Linux which occurred > > so early that even "earlyprintk=xen" did not produce any useful output. > > Hence the domain appeared to hang, while in fact it had brought down its > > only vCPU. By translating this to a shutdown, the situation will be > > better recognizable. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> > > Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com> > > I'm wondering, is it common for a domain to shutdown by shutting down > all it's vCPUs? > > In the scenario that you describe above it seems it would be more > helpful to issue a SHUTDOWN_crash instead maybe with a gdprintk > message in order to aid debugging.
There doesn't seem to be a reliable way to distinguish a crash vs a guest clean shutdown in you scheme though. Wei. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
