vl: Add option to avoid stopping VM upon guest panic
The current default action of pausing a guest after a panic event
is received leaves the responsibility to resume guest execution to the
management layer. The reasons for this behavior are discussed here:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/52148F88.5000509@redhat.com/
However, in instances like the case of older guests (Linux and
Windows) using a pvpanic device but missing support for the
PVPANIC_CRASHLOADED event, and Windows guests using the hv-crash
enlightenment, it is desirable to allow the guests to continue
running after sending a PVPANIC_PANICKED event. This allows such
guests to proceed to capture a crash dump and automatically reboot
without intervention of a management layer.
Add an option to avoid stopping a VM after a panic event is received,
by passing:
-action panic=none
in the command line arguments, or during runtime by using an upcoming
QMP command.
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <1607705564-26264-3-git-send-email-alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>
[Do not fix panic action in the variable, instead modify -no-shutdown. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/softmmu/runstate.c b/softmmu/runstate.c
index bd0522e..636aab0 100644
--- a/softmmu/runstate.c
+++ b/softmmu/runstate.c
@@ -469,13 +469,23 @@
if (current_cpu) {
current_cpu->crash_occurred = true;
}
- qapi_event_send_guest_panicked(GUEST_PANIC_ACTION_PAUSE,
- !!info, info);
- vm_stop(RUN_STATE_GUEST_PANICKED);
- if (shutdown_action == SHUTDOWN_ACTION_POWEROFF) {
+ /*
+ * TODO: Currently the available panic actions are: none, pause, and
+ * poweroff, but in principle debug and reset could be supported as well.
+ * Investigate any potential use cases for the unimplemented actions.
+ */
+ if (panic_action == PANIC_ACTION_PAUSE) {
+ qapi_event_send_guest_panicked(GUEST_PANIC_ACTION_PAUSE,
+ !!info, info);
+ vm_stop(RUN_STATE_GUEST_PANICKED);
+ } else if (panic_action == PANIC_ACTION_POWEROFF) {
qapi_event_send_guest_panicked(GUEST_PANIC_ACTION_POWEROFF,
!!info, info);
+ vm_stop(RUN_STATE_GUEST_PANICKED);
qemu_system_shutdown_request(SHUTDOWN_CAUSE_GUEST_PANIC);
+ } else {
+ qapi_event_send_guest_panicked(GUEST_PANIC_ACTION_RUN,
+ !!info, info);
}
if (info) {
