Re: [PATCH] x86, nmi: workaround sti; hlt race vs nmi; intr

[H. Peter Anvin]

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.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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