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.
Cheers.
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