On 09/02/15 13:26, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 09.02.15 at 14:13, wrote:
>> On 09/02/15 12:56, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> So wouldn't it be possible to get rid of nmi_crash() and have
>>> nmi() call *nmi_handler instead of don_nmi (and nmi_handler
>>> would really just become an alias of exception_tabl
>>> On 09.02.15 at 14:13, wrote:
> On 09/02/15 12:56, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> So wouldn't it be possible to get rid of nmi_crash() and have
>> nmi() call *nmi_handler instead of don_nmi (and nmi_handler
>> would really just become an alias of exception_table[2]?
>
> nmi_crash() deliberately doesn't
On 09/02/15 12:56, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 09.02.15 at 12:52, wrote:
>> On 09/02/15 11:43, Tim Deegan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> At 11:25 + on 09 Feb (1423477508), Andrew Cooper wrote:
In the case of a crash, nmi_shootdown_cpus() patches nmi_crash() into the
>> IDT
of each processor,
>>> On 09.02.15 at 12:52, wrote:
> On 09/02/15 11:43, Tim Deegan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> At 11:25 + on 09 Feb (1423477508), Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> In the case of a crash, nmi_shootdown_cpus() patches nmi_crash() into the
> IDT
>>> of each processor, such that the next NMI it receives will force
On 09/02/15 11:43, Tim Deegan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At 11:25 + on 09 Feb (1423477508), Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> In the case of a crash, nmi_shootdown_cpus() patches nmi_crash() into the IDT
>> of each processor, such that the next NMI it receives will force it into the
>> crash path.
>>
>> c/s 7dd3b0
Hi,
At 11:25 + on 09 Feb (1423477508), Andrew Cooper wrote:
> In the case of a crash, nmi_shootdown_cpus() patches nmi_crash() into the IDT
> of each processor, such that the next NMI it receives will force it into the
> crash path.
>
> c/s 7dd3b06ff "vmx: fix handling of NMI VMEXIT" fixed on
In the case of a crash, nmi_shootdown_cpus() patches nmi_crash() into the IDT
of each processor, such that the next NMI it receives will force it into the
crash path.
c/s 7dd3b06ff "vmx: fix handling of NMI VMEXIT" fixed one issue but
inadvertently introduced another. The original use of self_nmi
