Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:34:57 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, nmi: workaround sti; hlt race vs nmi; intr |
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On 09/28/2010 01:50 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Personally I think the safer route is to take the patch. There are > other processors besides Intel and AMD and we can't test all of them, > not to mention various emulators and virtual machine monitors out there. >
Speaking for the smoltering crater that used to be *Transmeta*, I'm (from memory) quite certain they blocked NMI and that this was intentional behavior.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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