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SubjectRe: 64bit x86: NMI nesting still buggy?
On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 06:29:04 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> wrote:


> > [2] "A special case can occur if an SMI handler nests inside an NMI
> > handler and then another NMI occurs. During NMI interrupt
> > handling, NMI interrupts are disabled, so normally NMI interrupts
> > are serviced and completed with an IRET instruction one at a
> > time. When the processor enters SMM while executing an NMI
> > handler, the processor saves the SMRAM state save map but does
> > not save the attribute to keep NMI interrupts disabled.
> > Potentially, an NMI could be latched (while in SMM or upon exit)
> > and serviced upon exit of SMM even though the previous NMI
> > handler has still not completed."
>
> I believe [2] only applies if there is an IRET executing inside the SMM
> handler, which should not normally be the case. It might also have been
> addressed since that was written, but I don't know.

Bad behaving BIOS? But I'm sure there's no such thing ;-)

-- Steve



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