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[RFC,0/3] hw/misc/pvpanic: add support for normal shutdowns

Message ID 20231104-pvpanic-shutdown-v1-0-02353157891b@t-8ch.de (mailing list archive)
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Thomas Weißschuh Nov. 4, 2023, 11:25 a.m. UTC 
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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Thomas Weißschuh (3):
      hw/misc/pvpanic: centralize definition of supported events
      tests/qtest/pvanic: 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: d762bf97931b58839316b68a570eecc6143c9e3e
change-id: 20231104-pvpanic-shutdown-02e4b4cb4949

Best regards,