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

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 April 2011 20:34, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> 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 ?

-- PMM