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RE: [Xen-devel] poweroff in 3.2 and 3.3

To: 'Jan Beulich' <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] poweroff in 3.2 and 3.3
From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:23:50 +0800
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>From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:18 PM
>>However I'm considering the point whether Xen can simply reject the
>>s3 request, when observing non-current vcpus still alive. Domain can
>>be in trouble if unaware of underlying sleep phase, such time keeping
>>and softlockup warning. More seriously, domain with passthrough
>>devices can't recover device state since it's even not 
>notified to save
>>context. Opinions?
>
>I agree to this. But as per above, S3 (and S4 if ever 
>supported) must be
>distinguished from S5 in this regard.
>

Why is distinguish required here? You just want a machine poweroff with
S5, and it doesn't matter to reuse same main path as S3.

Thanks,
Kevin
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