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From: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] i386: annotate the rest of entry.s::nmi
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:46:43 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44DCC283.7030709@aknet.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44DB0927.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>

Hello.

Jan Beulich wrote:
> even more, as I'm now looking at it, this code seems
> outright wrong in using iret since that unmasks NMIs - Stas, is
> your pending adjustment to the 16-bit stack handling going to
> overcome this?)
No, it leaves the NMI path almost untouched.
But what exactly problem do you see with this iret?
If it unmasks NMI, then it does so for reason, which
is a return from an NMI handler. What exactly is wrong
with it?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-11 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-10  4:59 [patch] i386: annotate the rest of entry.s::nmi Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-10  5:20 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-10  8:23 ` Jan Beulich
2006-08-10  8:26   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-10  8:34     ` Jan Beulich
2006-08-11 17:46   ` Stas Sergeev [this message]
2006-08-14  6:52     ` Jan Beulich
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-10 12:48 Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-10 12:58 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-10 13:39 ` Jan Beulich
2006-08-10 17:39 Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-11  7:10 ` Jan Beulich
2006-08-11 23:13 Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-14  6:55 ` Jan Beulich

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