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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix IRQs inject to L2 which belong to L1 since race
    Il 04/07/2014 11:33, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
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    > The compiler is not aware of the fact that push/pop exists in this
    > function and, thus, places the vmcs parameter on the stack without
    > reserving the space. So the pushfq will overwrite the vmcs pointer and
    > let the function fail.

    Is that just a missing "memory" clobber? push/pop clobbers memory.

    Paolo


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