Re: [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v2)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > thanks Mathieu, i've picked this up into x86.git for more testing.
>
> ... but had to drop it due to missing PARAVIRT support which broke the 
> build. I guess on paravirt we could just initially define 
> INTERRUPT_RETURN_NMI_SAFE to iret, etc.?

I figure that's what we'd have to do.  This is exactly the fundamental 
problem with paravirt - it relies on a different, an ill-defined, model 
of the platform than the (generally well-defined) hardware specification 
provides.


	-hpa
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