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

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Ingo Molnar (mingo@xxxxxxx) 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.?
> 

Yes, I was about to email you about this.

Would it be valid to execute a popf in PARAVIRT or should be have some
special support like the normal iret does ?

And yes, initially using iret for paravirt should just work, but it
would leave the NMI iret issue for paravirt.

Mathieu

> 	Ingo
> 

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