Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-11-21 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:33:49PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:09:48PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote: > > Hi Marcelo, > > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:19:08AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 03:17:39PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > > On Mon,

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-11-21 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:33:49PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:09:48PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote: Hi Marcelo, On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:19:08AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 03:17:39PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-11-20 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:09:48PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:19:08AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 03:17:39PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Hu Tao wrote: > > > > But in the case of panic

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-11-20 Thread Hu Tao
Hi Marcelo, On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:19:08AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 03:17:39PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Hu Tao wrote: > > > But in the case of panic notification, more dependency means more > > > chances of failure of panic

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-11-20 Thread Hu Tao
Hi Marcelo, On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:19:08AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 03:17:39PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Hu Tao hu...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: But in the case of panic notification, more dependency means more chances of

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-11-20 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:09:48PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote: Hi Marcelo, On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:19:08AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 03:17:39PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Hu Tao hu...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: But in the case of panic

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-11-12 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 03:17:39PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Hu Tao wrote: > > But in the case of panic notification, more dependency means more > > chances of failure of panic notification. Say, if we use a virtio device > > to do panic notification, then we

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-11-12 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 03:17:39PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Hu Tao hu...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: But in the case of panic notification, more dependency means more chances of failure of panic notification. Say, if we use a virtio device to do panic

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-11-09 Thread Sasha Levin
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Hu Tao wrote: > But in the case of panic notification, more dependency means more > chances of failure of panic notification. Say, if we use a virtio device > to do panic notification, then we will fail if: virtio itself has > problems, virtio for some reason can't

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-11-09 Thread Sasha Levin
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Hu Tao hu...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: But in the case of panic notification, more dependency means more chances of failure of panic notification. Say, if we use a virtio device to do panic notification, then we will fail if: virtio itself has problems, virtio for

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-11-05 Thread Hu Tao
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:30:02PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Wen Congyang wrote: > > At 10/31/2012 09:12 AM, Marcelo Tosatti Wrote: > >> It has been asked earlier why a simple virtio device is not usable > >> for this (with no response IIRC). > > > > 1. We can't

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-11-05 Thread Hu Tao
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:30:02PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Wen Congyang we...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: At 10/31/2012 09:12 AM, Marcelo Tosatti Wrote: It has been asked earlier why a simple virtio device is not usable for this (with no response IIRC). 1.

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-10-31 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:30:02PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Wen Congyang wrote: > > At 10/31/2012 09:12 AM, Marcelo Tosatti Wrote: > >> It has been asked earlier why a simple virtio device is not usable > >> for this (with no response IIRC). > > > > 1. We can't

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-10-31 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:30:02PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Wen Congyang we...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: At 10/31/2012 09:12 AM, Marcelo Tosatti Wrote: It has been asked earlier why a simple virtio device is not usable for this (with no response IIRC). 1.

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-10-30 Thread Sasha Levin
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Wen Congyang wrote: > At 10/31/2012 09:12 AM, Marcelo Tosatti Wrote: >> It has been asked earlier why a simple virtio device is not usable >> for this (with no response IIRC). > > 1. We can't use virtio device when the kernel is booting. So the issue here is the

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-10-30 Thread Wen Congyang
At 10/31/2012 09:12 AM, Marcelo Tosatti Wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:42:32AM +0800, Hu Tao wrote: >> We can know the guest is panicked when the guest runs on xen. >> But we do not have such feature on kvm. >> >> Another purpose of this feature is: management app(for example: >> libvirt) can

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-10-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:42:32AM +0800, Hu Tao wrote: > We can know the guest is panicked when the guest runs on xen. > But we do not have such feature on kvm. > > Another purpose of this feature is: management app(for example: > libvirt) can do auto dump when the guest is panicked. If

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-10-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:42:32AM +0800, Hu Tao wrote: We can know the guest is panicked when the guest runs on xen. But we do not have such feature on kvm. Another purpose of this feature is: management app(for example: libvirt) can do auto dump when the guest is panicked. If management

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-10-30 Thread Wen Congyang
At 10/31/2012 09:12 AM, Marcelo Tosatti Wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:42:32AM +0800, Hu Tao wrote: We can know the guest is panicked when the guest runs on xen. But we do not have such feature on kvm. Another purpose of this feature is: management app(for example: libvirt) can do auto

Re: [PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-10-30 Thread Sasha Levin
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Wen Congyang we...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: At 10/31/2012 09:12 AM, Marcelo Tosatti Wrote: It has been asked earlier why a simple virtio device is not usable for this (with no response IIRC). 1. We can't use virtio device when the kernel is booting. So the issue

[PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-10-24 Thread Hu Tao
We can know the guest is panicked when the guest runs on xen. But we do not have such feature on kvm. Another purpose of this feature is: management app(for example: libvirt) can do auto dump when the guest is panicked. If management app does not do auto dump, the guest's user can do dump by hand

[PATCH v11] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

2012-10-24 Thread Hu Tao
We can know the guest is panicked when the guest runs on xen. But we do not have such feature on kvm. Another purpose of this feature is: management app(for example: libvirt) can do auto dump when the guest is panicked. If management app does not do auto dump, the guest's user can do dump by hand