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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, nmi: workaround sti; hlt race vs nmi; intr
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:30:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA21820.5010704@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA20B21.7060809@zytor.com>

  On 09/28/2010 05:34 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 09/28/2010 01:50 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >
> >  Personally I think the safer route is to take the patch.  There are
> >  other processors besides Intel and AMD and we can't test all of them,
> >  not to mention various emulators and virtual machine monitors out there.
> >
>
> Speaking for the smoltering crater that used to be *Transmeta*, I'm
> (from memory) quite certain they blocked NMI and that this was
> intentional behavior.
>

We'll need:

- Intel
- AMD
- Geode
- Via
- kvm (currently no, but plan to)
- qemu
- vmware
- others?

It should be relatively simple to write a small test case to test this.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-28 16:30 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
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 [this message]
2010-09-27 10:31 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-09-27 14:17   ` Avi Kivity

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