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Re: [Qemu-devel] Unix signal to send ACPI-shutdown to Guest
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Unix signal to send ACPI-shutdown to Guest |
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Tue, 8 May 2018 11:11:21 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) |
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 11:59:41PM +0100, Andrew Wood via Qemu-devel wrote:
> Ive been looking into the possibility of using a unix signal to send an acpi
> shutdown request to a VM, and came across a posting on this l in March 1.
> See https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg04169.html
>
>
> To summarise to refresh memories there was a patch proposed using SIGINT
> followed by discussion as to why SIGINT wasnt ideal because it would cause
> regressions for anyone relying on the existing handling of SIGINT, and
> various other signals were considered including HUP & USR1 & USR2 all of
> which are already used for something else.
>
> Is SIGPWR a suitable candidate, I have made a patch to use SIGPWR but as Im
> new to QEMUs internals Im not sure if there are any circumstances in which
> an alternative handler is registered for SIGPWR which might conflict?
A quick grep of the Linux kernel code suggests that SIGPWR is very
rarely raised by the kernel. It's only sent to init on s390 and Silicon
Graphics SN systems. QEMU could use the signal on Linux without risk of
collision.
It's worth sending a patch. Here are the patch submission guidelines:
https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
Stefan
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