From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 V7] qemu,qmp: add inject-nmi qmp command Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:52:04 +0300 Message-ID: <4DA404A4.3030308@redhat.com> References: <4D9CAAF9.7000509@codemonkey.ws> <20110406150818.56707b9b@doriath> <4D9CAE4B.7080305@siemens.com> <20110406160020.373cb5a2@doriath> <4D9CC044.2000705@codemonkey.ws> <4D9E0352.2050204@codemonkey.ws> <20110407185108.GE7100@redhat.com> <20110407191759.GG7100@redhat.com> <4D9E2F6F.3040008@codemonkey.ws> <4DA16FCB.7040509@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Markus Armbruster , Anthony Liguori , Peter Maydell , Lai Jiangshan , Jiangshan , Gleb Natapov , Jan Kiszka , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Luiz Capitulino To: Blue Swirl Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42565 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752268Ab1DLHwV (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:52:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/11/2011 08:15 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > Avi Kivity writes: > > > >> On 04/08/2011 12:41 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >>> > >>> And it's a good thing to have, but exposing this as the only API to > >>> do something as simple as generating a guest crash dump is not the > >>> friendliest thing in the world to do to users. > >> > >> nmi is a fine name for something that corresponds to a real-life nmi > >> button (often labeled "NMI"). > > > > Agree. > > We could also introduce an alias mechanism for user friendly names, so > nmi could be used in addition of full path. Aliases could be useful > for device paths as well. Yes. Perhaps limited to the human monitor. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function