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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH] allow dom0 to power off machine using ACPI

To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH] allow dom0 to power off machine using ACPI on shutdown.
From: Harry Butterworth <harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:58:50 +0100
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On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:46 +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 07:36:10PM +0100, Harry Butterworth wrote:
> 
> > This is an evil little patch which allows my dom0 to power off the
> > machine on shutdown successfully and doesn't break my domU shutdown
> > behaviour.
> > 
> > The #if bits are ugly and are present because pm_power_off is declared
> > above in the same #if context, maybe they are not necessary.  I'm not
> > sure about the solution for ia64.
> > 
> > This powers down the machine without bothering to tell the
> > hypervisor.
> 
> I wonder why we go to the hypervisor for shutdown at the moment.

The kernel is for both dom0 and domU.  I think in the domU case the
hypervisor call is the correct mechanism to power off the virtual
machine.

> I
> don't see anything interesting being done for x86, and we could always
> have dom0 notifying Xen that it's going to shut down, and then
> shutting down whe the hypercall return.

This might be better for dom0 but currently I don't think the hypervisor
returns from the call in the dom0 case.  Not sure about that though.

> 
> > I thought this kind of solution was better than trying to import a lot
> > more ACPI cruft into Xen.  Any thoughts?
> 
> I think you want kernel_power_off() here, which should do the right
> thing for all architectures.

No. kernel_power_off is currently already being called and doesn't work
because it calls machine_power_off which in current unstable calls the
hypervisor which doesn't power off the hardware.

My patch modifies machine_power_off to call the native pm power off if
present (i.e. if dom0) or the hypervisor if not (i.e. domU).

> 
> Cheers,
> Muli


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