On 09/27/2010 11:15 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > Wow, this is incredibly ugly :). Can't we just mask NMIs when the interrupt shadow is active?
I plan to do that, for all the code that's out there relying on on STI interrupt shadow masking NMIs.
Yeah, that's me writing without thinking. So this means that the race can also happen on real hardware?
Yes. At least on documented hardware. Some (most? all?) hardware does mask NMIs after STI.
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