Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v3 0/4] cpus: Add generic NMI support

[Cornelia Huck]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 12:44:28 +0200
Greg Kurz <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 11:50:53 +0200
> Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 04.06.14 11:47, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > On 4 June 2014 10:39, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >> It's a kind of "emergency button" on real machines.  On PCs it sends an 
> > >> NMI
> > >> and this results in some kind of crash dump if the OS is configured
> > >> appropriately.  The command may be ill-named for historical reasons, but 
> > >> the
> > >> effect is not x86-specific.
> > > OK, so our callback function name should be sensibly named
> > > to match what the effect is supposed to be, and we should have
> > > a sensibly named command, and we should make "nmi" be
> > > a historical-legacy-backwards-compatibility command alias
> > > (possibly only exposed for x86).
> > 
> > I honestly don't have a better name :).
> > 
> > 
> > Alex
> > 
> 
> FWIW "emergency" is used in Paolo's explanation, as well as yours.

I wouldn't be a fan of "emergency" as it might be confused with the
emergency signal on s390.