From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757994AbZDKQ5p (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:57:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757521AbZDKQ5c (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:57:32 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:53179 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755495AbZDKQ5a (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:57:30 -0400 Message-ID: <49E0CBB0.9030105@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:56:16 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregory Haskins CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, agraf@suse.de, pmullaney@novell.com, pmorreale@novell.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, bhutchings@solarflare.com, andi@firstfloor.org, gregkh@suse.de, herber@gondor.apana.org.au, chrisw@sous-sol.org, shemminger@vyatta.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 14/19] kvm: add a reset capability References: <20090409155200.32740.19358.stgit@dev.haskins.net> <20090409163155.32740.50340.stgit@dev.haskins.net> In-Reply-To: <20090409163155.32740.50340.stgit@dev.haskins.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gregory Haskins wrote: > We need a way to detect if a VM is reset later in the series, so lets > add a capability for userspace to signal a VM reset down to the kernel. > As I mentioned, this won't be reliable. It needs to be driven from userspace and be per-device. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.