Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:30:24 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, nmi: workaround sti; hlt race vs nmi; intr |
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On 09/28/2010 05:34 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. >
We'll need:
- Intel - AMD - Geode - Via - kvm (currently no, but plan to) - qemu - vmware - others?
It should be relatively simple to write a small test case to test this.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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