Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch, 2.6.10-rc3] safe_hlt() & NMIs | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:26:35 +0000 |
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On Iau, 2004-12-16 at 02:10, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > Might this be because you can't rely on interrupt suppression for back to > back suppressing instructions?
The documentation seems to have little to say on this. I've also not tried things like interleaved mov->ss, sti to see how the interlocking is done. It would make sense given the original 8086 reason was to allow ss/sp to be loaded cleanly.
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