Re: [RFC] #MC mess

Borislav Petkov
2020-02-19T14:43:30Z

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 09:21:15AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> What would be nice is to have a NMI_IRET, that is defined as something
> that wont break legacy CPUs. Where it could be just a nop iret, or maybe
> if possible a "lock iret"? That is, not have a IRET_NON_NMI, as that
> would be all over the place, but just the iret for NMI itself. As
> that's in one place.

You mean, we could keep the nested NMI thing but it won't practically
get executed on NMI_IRET CPUs because there won't be any NMI nesting
anymore?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.