Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:27:37AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Am 26.08.2010 22:06, Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> Injecting an NMI while GUEST_INTR_STATE_STI is set may fail, >>> which can cause an EXIT with invalid state, resulting in the >>> guest dieing. >> Very interesting. Reality obviously doesn't bother about the statement >> of the vendor [1]. >> > I re-read my mail thread with vendor and to be fair vendor said that we should > clear blocked by STI before injecting NMI. It's my fault I missed it. Ah, ok, then I take this back. Still, this leaves blocked-by-STI useless when NMIs are present. We are somehow in the same troubles as on AMD. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
