tree dc83339d92d931d8e3e96c82052e507975d40ac6
parent 962630f207a33b7de4316022884b5241e05491cd
author Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> 1285340886 +0100
committer Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com> 1292159455 +0000

Watchdog: disable watchdog timer when hard-rebooting a guest.

This commit causes the watchdog timer to be reset when a guest is
hard-rebooted.

The failure case previously was as follows:

  (a) guest boots, watchdog is enabled

  (b) guest does a reset eg:
        echo 'b' > /proc/sysrq-trigger
    (note that an ordinary /sbin/reboot wouldn't hit this case
    since as the watchdog daemon is shut down, the daemon would
    properly disable the watchdog device)

  (c) the reboot takes longer than the remaining time on the
    watchdog

  (d) the watchdog therefore fires during the reboot

  (e) probably the VM would just reboot again at this point which
    is pretty benign, but it could depend on the action that the
    user had selected for the watchdog

Now we use the qdev reset function to register a reset handler
which disables the timer.  Note the handler is called _either_
just after init _or_ when the guest reboots.

In the i6300esb case there is a small refactoring of the code so
that the device's internal state is now fully restored to defaults
on a reboot.

Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>