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    SubjectRe: [PATCH UPDATE] x86: ignore spurious faults
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    On Friday 25 January 2008 19:15, Jan Beulich wrote:
    > Actually, another thought: permitting (and handling) spurious faults for
    > kernel mappings conflicts with NMI handling, i.e. great care would be
    > needed to ensure the NMI path cannot touch any such mapping. So
    > even the present Xen/Linux Dom0 implementation may have some
    > (perhaps unlikely) problems here, and it would get worse if we added
    > e.g. a virtual watchdog NMI (something I am considering, which would
    > then extend the problem to DomU-s).

    Can you explain how they conflict?

    Thanks,
    Nick


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