Xen devel - Jan 2006 - RE: [PATCH][REPOST] Additional states for Xenbus:Suspend/Resume

> I have previously posted a version of this patch. The problem 
> that I have encountered with driver backends was that they 
> were unaware of the reason why a frontend was disappearing or 
> why it was created. The following patch allows the backend to 
> see whether a frontend is going into suspend mode and 
> disappearing vs. disappearing due to domain destruction or 
> being created due to a resume vs a domain creation. I have 
> separated out the code that actually uses this awareness in 
> the TPM driver for another patch. Backend drivers can now be 
> written such that it allows hotplug scripts to react 
> differently depending on this reason.
Its not clear that having an explicit suspend state is a good thing: The
recovery mechanism that kicks in upon restore is also used for
recovering from backend restarts, which can happen at any time in any
state (as a result of a crash). Having an explicit suspend notification
may actually send the wrong message to driver writers. Further, you
don''t want to be doing things like running hotplug scripts during a
time
critical operation like the final suspend/resume commit stage.

Ian

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