Glauber Costa wrote:
This patch writes 0 (actually, what really matters is that the
LSB is cleared) to the system time msr before rebooting/shutting down
the machine.
Without it, we can have a random memory location being written
when the guest comes back
if (!kvm_para_available())
Avi Kivity wrote:
Glauber Costa wrote:
This patch writes 0 (actually, what really matters is that the
LSB is cleared) to the system time msr before rebooting/shutting down
the machine.
Without it, we can have a random memory location being written
when the guest comes back
if
Glauber Costa wrote:
Why not go all the way and to _restart the same way?
Because it got a parameter, and doing it in the same macro would make
my beautiful macros ugly.
Using another one, to pass the argument, didn't seem justifiable to
me, since there were just one of its kind.
Yes, of
Glauber Costa wrote:
as for kexec, it uses precisely the shutdown function, doesn't it?
Or is it crash_shutdown?
Humm, /me looks, and I think it's the later, right?
Only on crash-triggered kexecs. It can also happen via sys_reboot().
Which, it appears, goes through machine_shutdown().
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Avi Kivity wrote:
Glauber Costa wrote:
as for kexec, it uses precisely the shutdown function, doesn't it?
Or is it crash_shutdown?
Humm, /me looks, and I think it's the later, right?
Only on crash-triggered kexecs. It can also happen via sys_reboot().
Which, it appears, goes through
This patch writes 0 (actually, what really matters is that the
LSB is cleared) to the system time msr before rebooting/shutting down
the machine.
Without it, we can have a random memory location being written
when the guest comes back
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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