Re: NMI handling rework

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 08 2002 - 10:34:28 EST


On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 16:51, Corey Minyard wrote:
> NMIs cannot be masked, they are by definition non-maskable :-). You can
> get an NMI while executing an NMI.

The intel docs certainly imply NMI is never interrupted by an NMI, so
you have one per CPU to worry about

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