From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, nmi: workaround sti; hlt race vs nmi; intr Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:55:29 -0700 Message-ID: <4CA112D1.2020004@zytor.com> References: <1284913699-14986-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <4CA057EA.7000609@redhat.com> <768A5DC0-131A-4BC8-ADDD-044D8169545E@suse.de> <61284934-1AD3-4F7A-9488-D46FCEE9B753@suse.de> <4CA06147.7080805@redhat.com> <4CA06373.5030501@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alexander Graf , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4CA06373.5030501@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 09/27/2010 02:27 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > > I don't have write permissions for the spec. If you can verify that all > existing and future hardware will mask NMI after STI and convince the > spec owners to update the specifications, I'm all for it; it's certainly > a cleaner solution. > I'm trying to see if this is doable. As you can well imagine, though, it takes time. -hpa