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Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Jan. 26, 2016, 9:30 p.m. UTC
To hopefully clarify what it meant. Also point out that mechanism
by which the return 1 value is done is via an intimate knowledge of the
hypercall ABI (i.e. which register - eax - is the return value).

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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 tools/libxc/xc_resume.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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Wei Liu Feb. 1, 2016, 12:14 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 04:30:58PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> To hopefully clarify what it meant. Also point out that mechanism
> by which the return 1 value is done is via an intimate knowledge of the
> hypercall ABI (i.e. which register - eax - is the return value).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

As far as I can tell all concerns in previous versions have been
addressed.

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Ian Campbell Feb. 3, 2016, 11:47 a.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 12:14 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 04:30:58PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > To hopefully clarify what it meant. Also point out that mechanism
> > by which the return 1 value is done is via an intimate knowledge of the
> > hypercall ABI (i.e. which register - eax - is the return value).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> 
> As far as I can tell all concerns in previous versions have been
> addressed.
> 
> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>

Applied.
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diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_resume.c b/tools/libxc/xc_resume.c
index 87d4324..e692b81 100644
--- a/tools/libxc/xc_resume.c
+++ b/tools/libxc/xc_resume.c
@@ -248,11 +248,20 @@  out:
 /*
  * Resume execution of a domain after suspend shutdown.
  * This can happen in one of two ways:
- *  1. Resume with special return code.
- *  2. Reset guest environment so it believes it is resumed in a new
- *     domain context.
+ *  1. (fast=1) Resume the guest without resetting the domain environment.
+ *     The guests's call to SCHEDOP_shutdown(SHUTDOWN_suspend) will return 1.
+ *
+ *  2. (fast=0) Reset guest environment so it believes it is resumed in a new
+ *     domain context. The guests's call to SCHEDOP_shutdown(SHUTDOWN_suspend)
+ *     will return 0.
+ *
+ * (1) should only by used for guests which can handle the special return
+ * code. Also note that the insertion of the return code is quite interesting
+ * and that the guest MUST be paused - otherwise we would be corrupting
+ * the guest vCPU state.
+ *
  * (2) should be used only for guests which cannot handle the special
- * new return code. (1) is always safe (but slower).
+ * new return code - and it is always safe (but slower).
  */
 int xc_domain_resume(xc_interface *xch, uint32_t domid, int fast)
 {