Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:27:37AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Am 26.08.2010 22:06, [email protected] wrote:
>>> From: Jes Sorensen <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> 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

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