Re: [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:52:11PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 31/10/2013 17:48, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> > But code duplication is bad.
> 
> So should we make a table of IO_ERROR-like states to avoid code
> duplication?  You have to draw a line somewhere...
> 
> > I think IO error for example
> > is broken in that you can't pause but can run then pause.
> > Seems strange.
> 
> "cont" moves you out of IO_ERROR.  IO_ERROR is already a non-running
> state (all states except RUNNING are non-running), "stop" is a no-op in
> non-running states.  I don't like it that much either, but it works.
> 
> Paolo

Interesting.  Why do we have
-    { RUN_STATE_INTERNAL_ERROR, RUN_STATE_PAUSED },
then?