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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 05:46:28PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> From: Lai Jiangshan <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:05:15 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] qemu,qmp: add inject-nmi qmp command
> 
> inject-nmi command injects an NMI on all CPUs of guest.
> It is only supported for x86 guest currently, it will
> returns "Unsupported" error for non-x86 guest.
> 
> ---
>  hmp-commands.hx |    2 +-
>  monitor.c       |   18 +++++++++++++++++-
>  qmp-commands.hx |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Does anyone have any feedback on this addition, or are all new
QMP patch proposals blocked pending Anthony's QAPI work ?

We'd like to support it in libvirt and thus want it to be
available in QMP, as well as HMP.

> @@ -2566,6 +2566,22 @@ static void do_inject_nmi(Monitor *mon, const QDict 
> *qdict)
>              break;
>          }
>  }
> +
> +static int do_inject_nmi(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict, QObject 
> **ret_data)
> +{
> +    CPUState *env;
> +
> +    for (env = first_cpu; env != NULL; env = env->next_cpu)
> +        cpu_interrupt(env, CPU_INTERRUPT_NMI);
> +
> +    return 0;
> +}
> +#else
> +static int do_inject_nmi(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict, QObject 
> **ret_data)
> +{
> +    qerror_report(QERR_UNSUPPORTED);
> +    return -1;
> +}
>  #endif
>  

Interesting that with HMP you need to specify a single CPU index, but
with QMP it is injecting to all CPUs at once. Is there any compelling
reason why we'd ever need the ability to only inject to a single CPU
from an app developer POV ?

Daniel
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