paravirt_ops.safe_halt vs .halt?

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Chris Wright wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy at goop.org) wrote:
>   
>> What's paravirt_ops.halt for?  Is it the non-safe equivalent to 
>> safe_halt, or is it intended for shutting down the machine?  It doesn't 
>> seem to be used anywhere.
>>     
>
> It's called from halt().  Xen should be using it to down the cpu.
>   

Wonder if we shouldn't give it a less ambigious name...  Or rename 
safe_halt to block() or something.

    J


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