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

[Avi Kivity]

 On 09/28/2010 05:34 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

We'll need:

- Intel
- AMD
- Geode
- Via
- kvm (currently no, but plan to)
- qemu
- vmware
- others?

It should be relatively simple to write a small test case to test this.

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