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Subject: Re: NMI handling rework
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
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On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 16:51, Corey Minyard wrote:
> NMIs cannot be masked, they are by definition non-maskable :-).  You can 
> get an NMI while executing an NMI.

The intel docs certainly imply NMI is never interrupted by an NMI, so
you have one per CPU to worry about


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