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From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Subject: Re: NMI delivery not correctly working
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:57:10 +0100
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On 25/7/07 07:48, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@amd.com> wrote:

>> Guests *must* use the iret hypercall when returning from their NMI handler.
>> This is giving a virtualised equivalent of the 'NMI-blocking' latch
>> implemented in x86 processors, which is reset by the IRET instruction.
>> 
> 
> Ah, I see. Tnx. It would be really nice to have
> some documentation about hypercalls, though.

Yes. :-)

Actually I try to put reasonable amounts of detail in the public header
files, and would like patches to beef up that self-documentation where it's
lacking.

Separate and more detailed docs would be great too, if someone has the time.

 -- Keir