Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:49:17 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: STI architectural question (and lretq -- I'm not even kidding) |
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 06:33:02PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Of course, this does nothing at all to protect us from #MC after sti > on return from #MC to userspace, but I think we're screwed regardless > -- we could just as easily get a second #MC before the sti. Machine > check broadcast was the worst idea ever.
Please do not think that a raised #MC means the machine is gone. There are MC errors which are reported with the exception mechanism and from which we can and do recover, regardless of broadcasting or not.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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