[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3] qemu, qmp: convert do_inject_nmi() to QObject, QError

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:03:38 +0200
Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 12/15/2010 08:00 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > >  >
> > >  >  Looks like a GUI feature to me,
> > >
> > >  Really?  Can't see how you can build "NMI to all CPUs" from "NMI this
> > >  CPU".  Or am I misunderstanding you?
> >
> > I guess so. Avi referred to 'nmi button on many machines', I assumed he
> > meant a virtual machine GUI, am I wrong?
> 
> I meant a real machine's GUI (it's a physical button you can press with 
> your finger, if you have thin fingers).

Ok, I didn't know that, but I had another idea: the command could accept
either a single cpu index or a list:


  { "execute": "inject-nmi", "arguments": { "cpus": 2 } }

  { "execute": "inject-nmi", "arguments": { "cpus": [1, 2, 3, 4] } }

This has the feature of injecting the nmi in just some cpus, although I'm
not sure this is going to be desired/useful.

If we agree on this we'll have to wait because the monitor doesn't currently
support "hybrid" arguments.