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Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:20:04 +0300
From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: NMI vs #PF clash
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On 05/22/2012 05:09 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> > 
>> > Or we could just have the NMI always restore the cr2 register.
>> 
>> IMO that's best.
> 
> OK, I can whip up a patch, but I wont push that in till 3.6.
> 

Thanks.  Something I've noticed is that writing cr2 is slow, so you may
want to write it only if it has changed (which should be very rare).


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