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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, nmi: workaround sti; hlt race vs nmi; intr
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:55:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA112D1.2020004@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA06373.5030501@redhat.com>

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.

	-hpa


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-27 21:55 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 [this message]
2010-09-28  8:50               ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-28  9:22                 ` Roedel, Joerg
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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