[RFC][PATCH] kvm: add suspend pm-notifier

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Fri Jun 4 00:24:30 PDT 2021


On 04/06/21 09:21, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>>   
>>   	preempt_notifier_inc();
>> +	kvm_init_pm_notifier(kvm);
>>   
> You've probably thought it through and I didn't but wouldn't it be
> easier to have one global pm_notifier call for KVM which would go
> through the list of VMs instead of registering/deregistering a
> pm_notifier call for every created/destroyed VM?

That raises questions on the locking, i.e. if we can we take the 
kvm_lock safely from the notifier.

Paolo




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