Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] event: Add source information to SHUTDOWN

[Eric Blake]

On 04/19/2017 05:22 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Libvirt would like to be able to distinguish between a SHUTDOWN
> event triggered solely by guest request and one triggered by a
> SIGTERM or other action on the host.  qemu_kill_report() is
> already able to tell whether a shutdown was triggered by a host
> signal (but NOT by a host UI event, such as clicking the X on
> the window), but that information was then lost after being
> printed to stderr.
> 
> Enhance the shutdown request path to take a parameter of which
> way it is being triggered, and update ALL callers.  It would have
> been less churn to keep the common case with no arguments as
> meaning guest-triggered, and only modified the host-triggered
> code paths, via a wrapper function, but then we'd still have to
> audit that I didn't miss any host-triggered spots; changing the
> signature forces us to double-check that I correctly categorized
> all callers.
> 
> Here is output from 'virsh qemu-monitor-event --loop' with the
> patch installed:
> 
> event SHUTDOWN at 1492639680.731251 for domain fedora_13: {"guest":true}
> event STOP at 1492639680.732116 for domain fedora_13: <null>
> event SHUTDOWN at 1492639680.732830 for domain fedora_13: {"guest":false}

Another reason I'll need a v3: at least qemu-iotests 87 has to be
updated for new expected output.


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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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