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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	"Alexander Graf" <agraf@suse.de>,
	"qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>,
	"Alex Bligh" <alex@alex.org.uk>,
	"Cornelia Huck" <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
	"Luiz Capitulino" <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
	"Richard Henderson" <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v3 1/4] cpus: Define NMI callback
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:59:55 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1402484395.14780.48.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <539833C4.5090101@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 12:47 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Ok, I can buy removing the support for CPU != 0.  But still, the 
> overengineering remains.
> 
> If Alexey needs to trigger the NMI on all CPUs, simply moving the new 
> method from CPU to Machine, and blindly using first_cpu in s390 and x86 
> makes the most sense.

I can imagine a future where we would want to programatically trigger the
sreset (the NMI is basically a soft reset for us) on a specific target CPU
so it does make some sense to have a per CPU method and have the monitor
"nmi" command call it on all of them. But it's not a huge deal if you decide
to just make it as machine for now.

This is more than just a "debug" feature however, it is generally used to
trigger kdump on crashed partitions (this feature is called "dump" in pHyp).

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-11 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-04  8:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] cpus: Add generic NMI support Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-04  8:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/4] cpus: Define NMI callback Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-10 13:39   ` Luiz Capitulino
2014-06-10 14:41     ` Cornelia Huck
2014-06-10 14:48       ` Luiz Capitulino
2014-06-10 16:29         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-10 18:09           ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-11  0:12             ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-11  0:21               ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-11  0:23             ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-11  0:28               ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-11  4:59                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-11  8:01                   ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-11  8:27                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-11  8:29                       ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-11  8:37                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-11  8:42                           ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-11 10:47                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-11 10:59                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2014-06-11 12:04                               ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-11  9:04                 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-11  9:19                   ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-11 13:10           ` Luiz Capitulino
2014-06-11 13:36             ` Cornelia Huck
2014-06-11 13:42               ` Luiz Capitulino
2014-06-11  6:50       ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-11  7:57         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-11  8:38         ` Cornelia Huck
2014-06-11  9:18           ` Cornelia Huck
2014-06-10 15:13     ` Eric Blake
2014-06-10 15:40     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-11 12:50       ` Luiz Capitulino
2014-06-04  8:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/4] target-s390x: Migrate to new nmi() CPU callback Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-04  8:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/4] target-i386: " Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-04  8:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/4] target-ppc: Add support for " Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-04  9:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] cpus: Add generic NMI support Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-04  9:16 ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-04  9:30   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-04  9:33     ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-04  9:38       ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-04  9:39       ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-04  9:39       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-04  9:47         ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-04  9:50           ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-04 10:44             ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] " Greg Kurz
2014-06-04 10:51               ` Cornelia Huck
2014-06-04 11:34             ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexey Kardashevskiy

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