Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: blocked-by-sti must not defer NMI injections

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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 03:16:46PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> As the processor may not consider GUEST_INTR_STATE_STI as a reason for
> blocking NMI, it could return immediately with EXIT_REASON_NMI_WINDOW
> when we asked for it. But as we consider this state as NMI-blocking, we
> can run into an endless loop.
> 
> Resolve this by allowing NMI injection if just GUEST_INTR_STATE_STI is
> active (originally suggested by Gleb). Intel confirmed that this is
> safe, the processor will never complain about NMI injection in this
> state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> KVM-Stable-Tag
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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