Avi Kivity wrote:
> Glauber Costa wrote:
>> as for kexec, it uses precisely the shutdown function, doesn't it?
>>
>> Or is it crash_shutdown?
>> Humm, /me looks, and I think it's the later, right?
>>
>
> Only on crash-triggered kexecs. It can also happen via sys_reboot().
> Which, it appears, g
Glauber Costa wrote:
> as for kexec, it uses precisely the shutdown function, doesn't it?
>
> Or is it crash_shutdown?
> Humm, /me looks, and I think it's the later, right?
>
Only on crash-triggered kexecs. It can also happen via sys_reboot().
Which, it appears, goes through machine_shutdown().
Glauber Costa wrote:
>>
>> Why not go all the way and to _restart the same way?
>>
> Because it got a parameter, and doing it in the same macro would make
> my beautiful macros ugly.
> Using another one, to pass the argument, didn't seem justifiable to
> me, since there were just one of its kind.
Avi Kivity wrote:
> Glauber Costa wrote:
>> This patch writes 0 (actually, what really matters is that the
>> LSB is cleared) to the system time msr before rebooting/shutting down
>> the machine.
>>
>> Without it, we can have a random memory location being written
>> when the guest comes back
>>
Avi Kivity wrote:
> Glauber Costa wrote:
>> This patch writes 0 (actually, what really matters is that the
>> LSB is cleared) to the system time msr before rebooting/shutting down
>> the machine.
>>
>> Without it, we can have a random memory location being written
>> when the guest comes back
>>
>>
Glauber Costa wrote:
> This patch writes 0 (actually, what really matters is that the
> LSB is cleared) to the system time msr before rebooting/shutting down
> the machine.
>
> Without it, we can have a random memory location being written
> when the guest comes back
> if (!kvm_para_available
Glauber Costa wrote:
> This patch writes 0 (actually, what really matters is that the
> LSB is cleared) to the system time msr before rebooting/shutting down
> the machine.
>
> Without it, we can have a random memory location being written
> when the guest comes back
>
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Cost
