On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 12:44:28 +0200 Greg Kurz <gk...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 11:50:53 +0200 > Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > > > > > On 04.06.14 11:47, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > On 4 June 2014 10:39, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> 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.
