Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3] Guest stop notification

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2011-12-05 14:35, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:45:51PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> I was referring to the relation between the IOCTL and kvmclock, but
>>>> IOCTL vs. kvm_run.
>>>>
>>>> Jan
>>>
>>> Ah, OK. Yes, we better characterize it as KVMCLOCK specific (a generic
>>> "guest is paused" command is not the scope of this patch).
>>>
>>> So appending KVMCLOCK_ to the ioctl definitions would make that more
>>> explicit.
>>
>> IMHO, that would move things in the wrong direction. The IOCTL in itself
>> has _nothing_ to do with kvmclock. It's just that its x86 backend is
>> implemented on top of that infrastructure. For me the IOCTL is pretty
>> generic, can be backed by kvmclock, but need not be on all future archs.
>>
>> Jan
> 
> I do not see the need to lift this infrastructure to arch independent
> status at the moment, without clear semantics on that arch independent
> level.
> 
> So I am fine with the current GUEST_PAUSED naming (which can later be
> extended with GUEST_RESUMED etc, if necessary, for use by other archs
> for example), and implementation in hw/kvmclock.c.
> 

Yes, let's keep it as suggested last (addition of kvmclock, unchanged
IOCTL interface).

Jan

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