Shutdown requests are normally hardware dependent.
By extending pvpanic to also handle shutdown requests, guests can
submit such requests with an easily implementable and cross-platform
mechanism.
The background is the usage of minimal Linux kernels with different
architectures for testing purposes.
Poweroff support varies highly per architecture and requires a bunch of
code to be compiled to work.
pvpanic on the other hand is very small and uniform.
I sent an RFC[0] for this before to qemu-devel and lkml which didn't
generate feedback, so let's discuss the concrete proposal.
Patch 1 and 2 are general cleanups, that seems useful even without this
proposal being implemented.
I'll send the corresponding Linux patch to LKML.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/984794aa-4af0-4c68-a74e-7420ec3151a5@t-8ch.de/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@t-8ch.de>
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Changes in v2:
- Remove RFC status
- Add Ack from Thomas to 2nd patch
- Fix typo in title of 2nd patch
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231104-pvpanic-shutdown-v1-0-02353157891b@t-8ch.de
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Thomas Weißschuh (3):
hw/misc/pvpanic: centralize definition of supported events
tests/qtest/pvpanic: use centralized definition of supported events
hw/misc/pvpanic: add support for normal shutdowns
docs/specs/pvpanic.rst | 2 ++
hw/misc/pvpanic-isa.c | 3 +--
hw/misc/pvpanic-pci.c | 3 +--
hw/misc/pvpanic.c | 8 ++++++--
include/hw/misc/pvpanic.h | 2 ++
include/standard-headers/linux/pvpanic.h | 1 +
tests/qtest/pvpanic-pci-test.c | 5 +++--
tests/qtest/pvpanic-test.c | 5 +++--
8 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 9155a938cf8fdcb29b760acb8a742bb48be9000f
change-id: 20231104-pvpanic-shutdown-02e4b4cb4949
Best regards,
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Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@t-8ch.de>