From: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, nmi: workaround sti; hlt race vs nmi; intr
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:22:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100928092258.GJ9817@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA1AC50.7000801@redhat.com>
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 04:50:24AM -0400, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 09/27/2010 11:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Joerg, can you look at this from the AMD side?
Yes, I will discuss this with the hardware peoples. Will take some time
here too.
Joerg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-28 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-19 16:28 [PATCH] x86, nmi: workaround sti; hlt race vs nmi; intr Avi Kivity
2010-09-27 8:38 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-27 9:13 ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-27 9:15 ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-27 9:17 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-27 9:22 ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-27 9:27 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-27 9:36 ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-27 21:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-28 8:50 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-28 9:22 ` Roedel, Joerg [this message]
2010-09-28 15:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-28 16:30 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-27 10:31 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-09-27 14:17 ` Avi Kivity
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