Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 V7] qemu,qmp: add inject-nmi qmp command

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 01:32:50PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 04/07/2011 01:10 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >On 6 April 2011 20:34, Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
> >>http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/liaai/crashdump/liaaicrashdumpnmiipmi.htm
> >>
> >>If an OS is totally hosed (spinning with interrupts disabled), and NMI can
> >>be used to generate a crash dump.
> >>
> >>It's a debug feature and modelling it exactly the way we are probably makes
> >>sense for other architectures too.  The real semantics are basically force
> >>guest crash dump.
> >Ah, right. (There isn't really an equivalent to this on ARM since
> >we don't have a real NMI equivalent. So any implementation for ARM
> >qemu would be board dependent since you could wire a watchdog up to
> >any interrupt.)
> >
> >Should we try to pick a command name that says what it's supposed to
> >do rather than how it happens to be implemented on x86 ?
> 
> Yup, I was thinking the same thing after I sent the note above.  If
> we call it 'force-crash-dump', we can implement it as an NMI on
> target-i386 and potentially as something else on a different target.
> 
NMI does not have to generate crash dump on every guest we support.
Actually even for windows guest it does not generate one without
tweaking registry. For all I know there is a guest that checks mail when
NMI arrives. Lets give meaningful name, like inject-nmi, for nmi
injection command.

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			Gleb.