Re: [PATCH] deal with interrupt shadow state for emulated instruction

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> 
> The comment about repeating 'mov ss' in the manual has that wonderful
> word in it, May.  That means we're perfectly allowed to ignore it and
> just set the flag unconditionally.
> 

Realistically, though, this should only be done for a limited number of
sequential instructions.

> I doubt we'll ever see a repeated 'mov ss', once is more than enough.

True enough, except maliciously.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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