Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Add fake_s3 command-line option for testing

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 22.05.18 at 13:21, <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/22/2018 11:51 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 21.05.18 at 16:16, <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Most server-class hardware doesn't support ACPI S3 suspend;
>> 
>> Is that really the case? I though S3 was pretty "normal" these days.
>> 
>>> but most bugs we'll run across won't need actual S3 to trigger.
>> 
>> Not sure about this one either: In particular the microcode issue
>> addressed recently does require actual S3 to surface. I'm not
>> meaning to put under question the usefulness of this option,
>> though. I'd just like the description to not lead to people drawing
>> wrong conclusions.
> 
> Re S3 support, I was just repeating what I'd heard.  My judgement is
> still that "most" bugs we end up encountering will be on the Xen side;
> but I'm happy to reword it to take out / moderate both implications.

Oh, surely issues normally are on the Xen side. It's just that there's a
fair range of issues which still require actually going through S3 to
show up - the ucode issues after XSA-254 are a good example thereof.

Jan



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