Re: [patch 1/2] x86_64 page fault NMI-safe

[Ingo Molnar]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers
> <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > It only handles the case of a single NMI coming in. What happens in this
> > scenario?
> 
> [ two nested NMI's ]
> 
> The _right_ thing happens.
> 
> What do you think the hardware would have done itself? The NMI was blocked. 
> It wouldn't get replayed twice. If you have two NMI's happening while 
> another NMI is active, you will get a single NMI after the first NMI has 
> completed.

If it ever became an issue, we could even do what softirqs do and re-execute 
the NMI handler. At least for things like PMU NMIs we have to handle them once 
they have been (re-)issued, or we'd get a stuck PMU.

But in any case it should be a non-issue.

	Ingo
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