Re: [PATCH] Fix emergency_restart (sysrq-b) with kvm loaded onIntel hosts

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Aug 25 2008 - 06:27:35 EST



* Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> reboot was always a bit fragile - i think we should only do that if
>> we find a box where the FADT reset works better than the first-wave
>> approaches we try.
>
> It worked on my host. Since it will fall back to keyboard reset and
> triple fault, it seems fairly safe.

... except if it hangs in ACPI/SMM code for whatever reason.

Ingo
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