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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 V7] qemu,qmp: add inject-nmi qmp command
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On 6 April 2011 20:34, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?top=
ic=3D/liaai/crashdump/liaaicrashdumpnmiipmi.htm
>
> If an OS is totally hosed (spinning with interrupts disabled), and NM=
I 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. =C2=A0The real semantics are basic=
ally 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 ?

-- PMM