Re: [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked

From: Wen Congyang
Date: Thu Mar 08 2012 - 20:20:12 EST


At 03/08/2012 07:13 PM, Avi Kivity Wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 09:57 AM, Wen Congyang wrote:
>> We can know the guest is paniced when the guest runs on xen.
>> But we do not have such feature on kvm.
>>
>> Another purpose of this feature is: management app(for example:
>> libvirt) can do auto dump when the guest is crashed. If management
>> app does not do auto dump, the guest's user can do dump by hand if
>> he sees the guest is paniced.
>>
>> I touch the hypervisor instead of using virtio-serial, because
>> 1. it is simple
>> 2. the virtio-serial is an optional device, and the guest may
>> not have such device.
>>
>> Changes from v2 to v3:
>> 1. correct spelling
>>
>> Changes from v1 to v2:
>> 1. split up host and guest-side changes
>> 2. introduce new request flag to avoid changing return values.
>
> I see no Documentation/ changes.

What shoude be writen into Documentation/? I read the documents under
Documentation/virtual/kvm, not all KVM_EXIT_* are writen in api.txt.
In this patch set, I introduce a new exit_reason: KVM_EXIT_GUEST_PANICKED,
but I donot know where I should write.

Thanks
Wen Congyang
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