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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked
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Gleb Natapov |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:24:38 +0200 |
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:18:16AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
>
> >Look at drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c. It has code to send panic
> >event over IMPI. The code is pretty complex. Of course if we a going to
> >implement something more complex than simple hypercall for panic
> >notification we better do something more interesting with it than just
> >saying "panic happened", like sending stack traces on all cpus for
> >instance.
>
> I doubt that's the best example, unfortunately. The IPMI event log
> has limited space and it has to be send a little piece at a time
> since each log entry is 14 bytes. It just prints the panic string,
> nothing else. Not that it isn't useful, it has saved my butt
> before.
>
I gave ipmi example just to show that others do complex things on panic,
not as an example of what we should do on a guest panic.
> You have lots of interesting options with paravirtualization. You
> could, for instance, create a console driver that delivered all
> console output efficiently through a hypercall. That would be
> really easy. Or, as you mention, a custom way to deliver panic
> information. Collecting information like stack traces would be
> harder to accomplish, as I don't think there is currently a way to
> get it except by sending it to printk.
>
Why using hypercall for that though? You can do that with
virtio-console. Make it zero config: virtio-console detected -> send
console output there.
--
Gleb.
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Wen Congyang, 2012/03/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Wen Congyang, 2012/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Gleb Natapov, 2012/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Wen Congyang, 2012/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Gleb Natapov, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Wen Congyang, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Gleb Natapov, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Corey Minyard, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked,
Gleb Natapov <=
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Daniel P. Berrange, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Avi Kivity, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Jan Kiszka, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Anthony Liguori, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Wen Congyang, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Gleb Natapov, 2012/03/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Wen Congyang, 2012/03/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Gleb Natapov, 2012/03/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Gleb Natapov, 2012/03/22