Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2014 23:43:19 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] x86_64: A real proposal for iret-less return to kernel |
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On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 06:37:26AM +0900, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Seriously. If an NMI is interrupted by an MCE, you might as well > consider the machine dead. Don't worry about it. We may or may not > recover, but it is *not* our problem.
I certainly like this way of handling it. We can even issue a nice banner saying something like "You're f*cked - go change hw."
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