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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 08/13] xen/pvticketlock: disable interrupts while

To: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 08/13] xen/pvticketlock: disable interrupts while blocking
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:00:07 +0300
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On 09/13/2011 10:21 PM, Don Zickus wrote:
Or are you saying an NMI in an idle system will have the same %rip thus
falsely detecting a back-to-back NMI?



That's easy to avoid - insert an instruction zeroing the last nmi_rip somewhere before or after hlt. It's always okay to execute such an instruction (outside the nmi handler itself), since nmi_rip is meant to detect a "no instructions executed" condition.

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