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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v2)
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Ingo Molnar 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.?

I have not yet implemented Xen's support for paravirtual NMI, so there's 
no scope for breaking anything from my perspective.  When I get around 
to NMI, I'll work around whatever's there.  I don't know if lguest or 
VMI has any guest NMI support.

    J