Re: RCU question

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:59:00AM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> It means that our NMI irq return path should check if it points to a hlt 
> instruction and if yes, then increase the saved EIP by one before doing 
> the iretd, right?

I don't think we'll ever post any event through nmi, so it doesn't
matter. We only care to be waken by real irqs, not nmi/smi. Idle loop is
fine to ignore the actions of the nmi handlers and to hang into the
"hlt".
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