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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v3 1/4] cpus: Define NMI callback


From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Subject: Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v3 1/4] cpus: Define NMI callback
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:59:55 +1000

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.




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