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[V8,10/10] pvpanic : update pvpanic document

Message ID 1543078821-16636-11-git-send-email-peng.hao2@zte.com.cn (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series add pvpanic mmio support | expand

Commit Message

Peng Hao Nov. 24, 2018, 5 p.m. UTC 
Add mmio support info in docs/specs/pvpanic.txt.

Signed-off-by: Peng Hao <peng.hao2@zte.com.cn>
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 docs/specs/pvpanic.txt | 18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt b/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt
index c7bbacc..2d06ee5 100644
--- a/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt
+++ b/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@ 
 PVPANIC DEVICE
 ==============
 
-pvpanic device is a simulated ISA device, through which a guest panic
-event is sent to qemu, and a QMP event is generated. This allows
+pvpanic device is a simulated ISA/SysBus device, through which a guest
+panic event is sent to qemu, and a QMP event is generated. This allows
 management apps (e.g. libvirt) to be notified and respond to the event.
 
-The management app has the option of waiting for GUEST_PANICKED events,
+The ma:wqnagement app has the option of waiting for GUEST_PANICKED events,
 and/or polling for guest-panicked RunState, to learn when the pvpanic
 device has fired a panic event.
 
+When pvpanic device is implemented as a ISA device, it supports IOPORT
+mode. Since QEMU v3.2 pvpanic also supports MMIO mode, it will be 
+implemented as a SYSBUS device.
+
 ISA Interface
 -------------
 
@@ -19,6 +23,14 @@  Software should set only bits both itself and the device recognize.
 Currently, only bit 0 is recognized, setting it indicates a guest panic
 has happened.
 
+SYSBUS Interface
+----------------
+
+The SYSBUS interface is similar to the ISA interface except that it uses
+MMIO. For example, the arm virt machine could put the pvpanic device at
+[0x9070000, 0x9070001] and currently only the first byte is used.
+
+
 ACPI Interface
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