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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall
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Jan Kiszka |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall |
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Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:13:52 +0200 |
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On 2011-06-20 18:34, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> >
>> > Do ILO cards / IPMI support something like this? We could follow
>> their
>> > lead in that case.
>>
>> The only two things which came to my mind are:
>>
>> * NMI (aka. ipmitool diag) - already available in qemu/kvm - but
>> requires
>> in-guest kexec/kdump
>> * Hardware-Watchdog (also available in qemu/libvirt)
>
> A watchdog has the advantage that is also detects lockups.
>
> In fact you could implement the panic device via the existing
> watchdogs. Simply program the timer for the minimum interval and
> *don't* service the interrupt. This would work for non-virt setups as
> well as another way to issue a reset.
If you manage to bring down the other guest CPUs fast enough. Otherwise,
they may corrupt your crashdump before the host had a chance to collect
all pieces. Synchronous signaling to the hypervisor is a bit safer.
Jan
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall, Avi Kivity, 2011/06/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall, Jan Kiszka, 2011/06/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall, Daniel Gollub, 2011/06/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall, Gleb Natapov, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall, Avi Kivity, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall, Gleb Natapov, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall, Avi Kivity, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall, Gleb Natapov, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall, Avi Kivity, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall, shawn che, 2011/06/21