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

[Anthony Liguori]

On 04/07/2011 01:10 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 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 ?

Yup, I was thinking the same thing after I sent the note above.  If we 
call it 'force-crash-dump', we can implement it as an NMI on target-i386 
and potentially as something else on a different target.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -- PMM