Re: [RFC] x86_64: A real proposal for iret-less return to kernel

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Wed May 21 2014 - 08:51:56 EST


On Tue, 20 May 2014, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> So the issue here is that we can have an NMI followed immediately by
> an MCE. The MCE code can call force_sig

This is interesting by itself. force_sig() takes siglock spinlock. This
really looks like a deadlock sitting there waiting to happen.

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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