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SubjectRe: Dealing with the NMI mess
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On 31/07/2015 07:11, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This instruction is awesome. Binutils can disassemble it (it's called
> "icebp") but it can't assemble it. KVM has special handling for it on
> VMX and actually reports it to QEMU on SVM (complete with a defined
> ABI).

FWIW it's not reported to QEMU, it's only reported to a nested
hypervisor. So the ABI is simply the SVM spec.

It's not surprising that VMX support was provided by the Wine guys...

Paolo

> We have an asm macro so we can assemble it for 32-bit but not
> 64-bit, despite the fact that it works on 64-bit.


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