Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757704Ab3HMGnh (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 02:43:37 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:42591 "EHLO mail-we0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755822Ab3HMGne (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 02:43:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1376372927-3510-1-git-send-email-michael@ellerman.id.au> References: <1376372927-3510-1-git-send-email-michael@ellerman.id.au> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:43:32 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: hzij7EQ5j7jvnV9gYIWdCgMdEg0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: powerpc: Implement "system-reboot" RTAS call From: Pekka Enberg To: Michael Ellerman Cc: KVM General , LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 902 Lines: 21 On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Michael Ellerman 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 Applied, thanks Michael! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/