Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vl: allow "cont" from panicked state

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 04:37:56PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 21/08/2013 16:30, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> >> I think the same reasoning went behind the PANICKED state, and for most
> >> cases it's going to be disastrous to put the guest to run again,
> > 
> > Why will it? It will most likely just call halt a bit later.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> >> but I can understand that this is up user/mngt to decide this, not QEMU.
> > 
> > I don't have a problem with this patch as such, so
> > 
> > Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
> > 
> > though I'm still not really sure why do we
> > want to block guest immediately on panic.
> > Why not let it call halt a bit later?
> 
> To make sure the panic is detected, and action taken, in the host even
> if management has crashed at the time.

I'm not sure I get the reference to management crashing - we just
need to maintain "panicked" state to make sure info is not lost ...

> For example, even if you have
> reboot-on-panic active, management has time to take a core dump of the
> paused guest _before_ the reboot.
> 
> Paolo

but this sounds like a good reason to support synchronous panic events.

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