Re: [RFC PATCH 14/17] kvm: add a reset capability

Gregory Haskins wrote:

Avi Kivity wrote:
  

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Gregory Haskins wrote:
    

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We need a way to detect if a VM is reset later in the series, so lets
add a capability for userspace to signal a VM reset down to the kernel.
  
      

How do you handle the case of a guest calling kexec to load a new
kernel?  Or is that not important for your use case?

    

Hmm..I had not considered this.  Any suggestions on ways to detect it?

  

Best would be not to detect it; it's tying global events into a device.  Instead, have a reset command for your device and have the driver issue it on load and unload.

btw, reset itself would be better controlled from userspace; qemu knows about resets and can reset vbus devices directly instead of relying on kvm to reset them.  This decouples the two code bases a bit.  This is what virtio does.

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