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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] boot: ignore early NMIs
On 03/12/2012 01:04 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 03/12/2012 01:01 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> The basic problem is which source do we block this at? How many
>> sources are their? And architecturally last I looked x86 no longer
>> has a NMI disable EFI and similar systems want to get away without
>> a CMOS legacy clock because designers so often get them wrong.
>>
>
> On all processors which have an LAPIC you can block all NMI sources at
> the LAPIC. I think it's safe to assume that if you don't have an LAPIC
> -- an ancient system by now -- you have port 70h.
>

One thing: *disabling* the LAPIC will allow external NMIs coming in on
LINT1 through, since the LAPIC in the disabled state tries to mimic the
no-LAPIC configuration. So I don't think you want to disable LAPIC as
much as disable the interrupt vectors within.

-hpa



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