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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/15] Add NMI injection support to SVM.
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:40:51 +0300
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Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> It's OK as a first step towards correct NMI emulation. Additionally, you
>> could enable the IRQ window interception in case the is an NMI pending.
>> The resulting behavior should then much like the VNMI mask emulation for
>> vmx.
>>
>>     
> Yeah, but the question is if IRQ windows is already opened will exit
> happens before or after IRET.
>   

You mean if the NMI handler enabled interrupts?

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