Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] HVM Virtual S3

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/5/07 03:38, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I doubt whether this will bring some tricky issues if Qemu happens
> to inject some event after Xen's reset but before Qemu's reset. If
> that event results a stale pending interrupt after Xen resets vPIC or
> vIOAPIC, will that result a spurious interrupt after HVM is resumed?
> By current style, Qemu first reset all virtual devices and thus stop
> interrupt sources. Then it's safe to let Xen do a full reset subsequently.
> 
> Also normally the reason to put Qemu logic into Xen is for performance. For
> virtual S3 interception, it doesn't matter since only resume time is
> the concern.
> 
> Just doubt whether it's worthy of such split anyway. :-)

Okay, let's rename this s3_suspend hypercall to system_reset instead, and
leave it that.

 -- Keir



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