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PVPANIC DEVICE
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-pvpanic device is a simulated ISA device, through which a guest panic
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+pvpanic device is a simulated device, through which a guest panic
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event is sent to qemu, and a QMP event is generated. This allows
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management apps (e.g. libvirt) to be notified and respond to the event.
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@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ The management app has the option of waiting for GUEST_PANICKED events,
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and/or polling for guest-panicked RunState, to learn when the pvpanic
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device has fired a panic event.
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+The pvpanic device can be implemented as an ISA device (using IOPORT) or as a
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+PCI device.
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+
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ISA Interface
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@@ -24,6 +27,14 @@ bit 1: a guest panic has happened and will be handled by the guest;
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the host should record it or report it, but should not affect
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the execution of the guest.
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+PCI Interface
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+-------------
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+The PCI interface is similar to the ISA interface except that it uses an MMIO
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+address space provided by its BAR0, 1 byte long. Any machine with a PCI bus
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+can enable a pvpanic device by adding '-device pvpanic-pci' to the command
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+line.
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+
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ACPI Interface
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