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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] x86/vlapic: don't silently accept bad
 vectors
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 16:33:01 +0100
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On 06/10/14 16:29, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 06.10.14 at 17:16, <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
>> On 06/10/14 16:11, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> Vectors 0-15 are reserved, and a physical LAPIC - upon sending or
>>> receiving one - would generate an APIC error instead of doing the
>>> requested action. Make our emulation behave similarly.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>> What was windows actually tripping up on?
> It sends one or more NMI IPIs when about to reboot (with, as
> mandated, the vector field being zero).
>
> Jan

Ah yes - that would do it.

~Andrew