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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] pseries: Correct panic behaviour for pseries mach
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Thomas Huth |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] pseries: Correct panic behaviour for pseries machine type |
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Wed, 7 Jun 2017 19:10:55 +0200 |
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On 07.06.2017 16:34, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>
> On 07/06/2017 09:33, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 07.06.2017 09:07, David Gibson wrote:
>>> The pseries machine type doesn't usually use the 'pvpanic' device as such,
>>> because it has a firmware/hypervisor facility with roughly the same
>>> purpose. The 'ibm,os-term' RTAS call notifies the hypervisor that the
>>> guest has crashed.
>>>
>>> Our implementation of this call was sending a GUEST_PANICKED qmp event;
>>> however, it was not doing the other usual panic actions, making its
>>> behaviour different from pvpanic for no good reason.
>>>
>>> To correct this, we should call qemu_system_guest_panicked() rather than
>>> directly sending the panic event.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>> hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c | 7 ++-----
>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
>>> index 707c4d4..94a2799 100644
>>> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
>>> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
>>> @@ -293,12 +293,9 @@ static void rtas_ibm_os_term(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
>>> target_ulong args,
>>> uint32_t nret, target_ulong rets)
>>> {
>>> - target_ulong ret = 0;
>>> + qemu_system_guest_panicked(NULL);
>>>
>>> - qapi_event_send_guest_panicked(GUEST_PANIC_ACTION_PAUSE, false, NULL,
>>> - &error_abort);
>>> -
>>> - rtas_st(rets, 0, ret);
>>> + rtas_st(rets, 0, RTAS_OUT_SUCCESS);
>>> }
>>>
>>> static void rtas_set_power_level(PowerPCCPU *cpu, sPAPRMachineState *spapr,
>>>
>>
>> If I get that qemu_system_guest_panicked() function right, it will stop
>> the VM, won't it? That contradicts the LoPAPR spec that says that the
>> RTAS call returns if the "ibm,extended-os-term" property is available in
>> the device tree.
>
> It does return... but only after the user starts the guest again with
> "cont".
OK, I guess that's enough to say that the "ibm,extended-os-term"
property can stay ... so I think the patch is fine as it is right now.
Thomas