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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:44:41 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] x86_64 page fault NMI-safe
On 07/15/2010 10:38 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>>
>> Of course, if there is some trap that re-enables interrupts even if
>> the trap happened in an interrupt-disabled region, then that would
>> change things, but that would be a bad bug regardless (and totally
>> independently of any NMI issues). So in that sense it's a "could
>> happen", but it's something that would be a totally separate bug.
>
> Yep, this kind of scenario would therefore be a bug that does not belong to the
> specific realm of nmis.
>
Yes, the only specific issue here is NMI -> trap -> IRET -> [nested
NMI], which is what this whole thing is about.
-hpa
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