The user can launch the guest in this sequence:
xl create -p /vm.cfg [launch, but pause it]
xl shutdown latest [sets control/shutdown=poweroff]
xl unpause latest
xl console latest [and see that the guest has completely
ignored the shutdown request]
In reality the guest hasn't ignored it. It registers a watch
and gets a notification that there is value. It then calls
the shutdown_handler which ends up calling orderly_shutdown.
Unfortunately that is so early in the bootup that there
are no user-space. Which means that the orderly_shutdown fails.
But since the force flag was set to false it continues on without
reporting.
What we really want to is to use the force when we are in the
SYSTEM_BOOTING state and not use the 'force' when SYSTEM_RUNNING.
However, if we are in the running state - and the shutdown command
has been given before the user-space has been setup, there is nothing
we can do. Worst yet, we stop ignoring the 'xl shutdown' requests!
As such, the other part of this patch is to only stop ignoring
the 'xl shutdown' when we are truly in the power off sequence.
That means the user can do multiple 'xl shutdown' and we will try
to act on them instead of ignoring them.
Fixes-Bug: http://bugs.xenproject.org/xen/bug/6
Reported-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
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