Re: [PATCH V2 3/5] ara virt interface of perf to support kvm guestos statistics collection in guest os

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/23/2010 04:43 AM, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > A reset does not involve destroying a vm; you have to clean up as part
> > of the rest process.
> >      
> What does 'reset' here mean? Is it a reboot or halt? If it's a halt, it involves
> destroying a vm. If a host user just kills the qemu process, is it a reset involving
> destroying a vm?
>    

'reset' is either a complete reset ('system_reset' on the qemu monitor, 
cycles through the bios etc.) or just an INIT signal to one vcpu.  
Neither involves destroying a vm.

> > You aren't guaranteed a reboot notifier will be called.  On the other
> > hand, we need a kexec handler.
> >      
> ordinary kexec calls all reboot notifiers. Only crash kexec doesn't call them.
> I will implement a machine_ops.crash_shutdown callback.
>    

Thanks.

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