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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] fix noreboot behaviour on clean reboot (was:

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Muli Ben-Yehuda" <muli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] fix noreboot behaviour on clean reboot (was: intended behaviour of noreb
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:42:49 +0100
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>>> Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx> 07.08.06 14:13 >>>
>On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 08:17:44AM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
>> On 6/8/06 7:50 am, "Muli Ben-Yehuda" <muli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> > Setting 'noreboot' on the Xen command line stops reboot(1) from
>> > working in dom0. Is this the intended behaviour? I would expect
>> > noreboot to only apply to reboots that are trigerred as a result of
>> > kernel panis or oopses.
>> 
>> Clean shutdown of domain0 could clear the noreboot flag in Xen.
>
>Itt's a bit too hacky that machine_restart() either restarts or halts,
>depends on opt_noreboot. How about something like this:
>
>- move code specific to dom0 out of domain_shutdown() into
>  dom0_shutdown()
>- dom0_shutdown() has the following semantics:
>  if reason is SHUTDOWN_poweroff: halt
>  if reason is SHUTDOWN_crash: halt if opt_noreboot is set, reboot
>  otherwise.
>  if reason is SHUTDOWN_reboot: reboot (regardless of noreboot)
>  if reason is anything else: halt if opt_noreboot is set, reboot
>  otherwise (preserve backward compatible behaviour).
>- I checked and PV Linux i386/x86-64 uses
>  SHUTDOWN_crash/SHUTDOWN_reboot appropriately to give the above
>  semantics.
>- since opt_noreboot is now referenced in common code, add definitions
>  for it for ia64 and ppc as well. Hooking it in in arch code is
>  simple - just parse the command line options and set opt_noreboot
>  appropriately.
>
>Tested on x86-64, comments appreciated!

Yes, please!

Jan

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