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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3] qemu, qmp: convert do_inject_nmi() to QO
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Luiz Capitulino |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3] qemu, qmp: convert do_inject_nmi() to QObject, QError |
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Mon, 3 Jan 2011 11:46:52 -0200 |
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:09:05 +0800
Lai Jiangshan <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 12/17/2010 11:25 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 12/17/2010 01:22 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I think Avi's suggest is better, and I will use
> >> > "inject-nmi" (without cpu-index argument) to send NMI to all cpus,
> >> > like physical GUI. If some one want to send NMI to a set of cpus,
> >> > he can use "inject-nmi" multiple times.
> >>
> >> His suggestion is to drop _all_ arguments, right Avi?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
>
> We don't need to drop the cpu-index argument,
> the upstream tools(libvirt etc.) can just issue "inject-nmi"
> command without any argument when need.
>
> Reasons to keep this argument
> 1) Useful for kernel developer or debuger sending NMI to a special CPU.
Ok.
> 2) Share the code with nmi of hmp version. Share the way how to
> use these two commands.(hmp version and qmp version)
This is bad. As a general rule, we shouldn't tweak QMP interfaces with
the intention of sharing code with HMP or anything like that.
Anyway, I buy your first argument, although I'm not a kernel developer
so I'm just trusting your use case.
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