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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked
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Avi Kivity |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked |
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Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:25:16 +0200 |
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On 03/21/2012 06:18 PM, Corey Minyard wrote:
>
>> Look at drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c. It has code to send panic
>> event over IMPI. The code is pretty complex. Of course if we a going to
>> implement something more complex than simple hypercall for panic
>> notification we better do something more interesting with it than just
>> saying "panic happened", like sending stack traces on all cpus for
>> instance.
>
> I doubt that's the best example, unfortunately. The IPMI event log
> has limited space and it has to be send a little piece at a time since
> each log entry is 14 bytes. It just prints the panic string, nothing
> else. Not that it isn't useful, it has saved my butt before.
>
> You have lots of interesting options with paravirtualization. You
> could, for instance, create a console driver that delivered all
> console output efficiently through a hypercall. That would be really
> easy. Or, as you mention, a custom way to deliver panic information.
> Collecting information like stack traces would be harder to
> accomplish, as I don't think there is currently a way to get it except
> by sending it to printk.
That already exists; virtio-console (or serial console emulation) can do
the job.
In fact the feature can be implemented 100% host side by searching for a
panic string signature in the console logs.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Wen Congyang, 2012/03/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Wen Congyang, 2012/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Gleb Natapov, 2012/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Wen Congyang, 2012/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Gleb Natapov, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Wen Congyang, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Gleb Natapov, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Corey Minyard, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Gleb Natapov, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked,
Avi Kivity <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Daniel P. Berrange, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Avi Kivity, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Jan Kiszka, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Anthony Liguori, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Wen Congyang, 2012/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Gleb Natapov, 2012/03/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Wen Congyang, 2012/03/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Gleb Natapov, 2012/03/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Gleb Natapov, 2012/03/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked, Wen Congyang, 2012/03/22