Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:54:19 -0700 | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] x86_64 page fault NMI-safe | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote: > > There is also the fact we need to handle the lost NMI, by defering its > treatment or so. That adds even more complexity.
I don't think your read my proposal very deeply. It already handles them by taking a fault on the iret of the first one (that's why we point to the stack frame - so that we can corrupt it and force a fault).
Linus
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