Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: powerpc: Implement "system-reboot" RTAS call

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue Aug 13 2013 - 02:43:40 EST


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Michael Ellerman
<michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On some powerpc systems, reboot is implemented by an RTAS call by the
> name of "system-reboot". Currently we don't implement it in kvmtool,
> which means instead the guest prints an error and spins.
>
> This is particularly annoying because when the guest kernel panics it
> will try to reboot, and end up spinning in the guest.
>
> We can't implement reboot properly, ie. causing a reboot, but it's still
> preferable to implement it as halt rather than not implementing it at
> all.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks Michael!
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