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From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Rian Quinn <rianquinn@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86_64 INIT/SIPI Bug
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 09:49:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181109174918.GA3594@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANmpu8XY10CgYsnGn9hVDzGJQyWdwNihpYu3So62KtNwrkwGXw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 03:23:59PM -0700, Rian Quinn wrote:
> I apologize upfront if this is the wrong place to post this, pretty new to this.
> 
> We are working on the Bareflank Hypervisor (www.bareflank.org), and we
> are passing through the INIT/SIPI process (similar to how a VMX
> rootkit from EFI might boot the OS) and we noticed that on Arch Linux,
> the INIT/SIPI process stalls, something we are not seeing on Ubuntu.

I'm confused, INIT is blocked post-VMXON, what are you passing through?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-09 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-08 22:23 x86_64 INIT/SIPI Bug Rian Quinn
2018-11-09  1:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-11-09 16:13   ` Rian Quinn
2018-11-09 17:49 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2018-11-09 18:04   ` Rian Quinn
2018-11-09 18:42     ` Sean Christopherson

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