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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v2)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:37:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080416153731.GA17852@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080416151054.GA32456@elte.hu>

* Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote:
> 
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > thanks Mathieu, i've picked this up into x86.git for more testing.
> 
> ... but had to drop it due to missing PARAVIRT support which broke the 
> build. I guess on paravirt we could just initially define 
> INTERRUPT_RETURN_NMI_SAFE to iret, etc.?
> 

Yes, I was about to email you about this.

Would it be valid to execute a popf in PARAVIRT or should be have some
special support like the normal iret does ?

And yes, initially using iret for paravirt should just work, but it
would leave the NMI iret issue for paravirt.

Mathieu

> 	Ingo
> 

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-16 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080414230344.GA16061@Krystal>
2008-04-14 23:05 ` [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v2) Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-16 13:06   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 13:47     ` [TEST PATCH] Test NMI kprobe modules Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-16 14:34       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 14:54         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-16 15:10     ` [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v2) Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 15:18       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-16 15:37       ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2008-04-16 16:03       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-18  0:48         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-18  9:49           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-16 16:28       ` [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v3) Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-16 17:57         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-17 16:29           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-17 16:45             ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-18  0:05               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-18  8:27                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-19 21:18                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-20 12:58                     ` Andi Kleen

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