On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:15:46PM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >Yes, kprobes is case 1: atomic update. And we don't even have to bother
> >about Intel's erratum. This one is ok. That's mainly the
> >alternatives/paravirt code I worry about.
> >
>
> Paravirt and alternatives should all be ok because they are done before
> SMP bringup and with NMIs disabled. NMI watchdog is not setup until
> smp_prepare_cpus/check_nmi_watchdog, which happens way later, not during
> parse_args/setup_nmi_watchdog, which just decides which type of watchdog
> to setup.
There could be other NMIs too - e.g. caused by IO devices or NMI
buttons - but they're relatively unlikely.
>
> I originally considered the NMI problem for paravirt-ops patching done
> during module load, and found that I would need to modify
> stop_machine_run to have an architecture specific callout to mask and
> unmask NMIs.
When your virtual machine never injects NMIs or MCEs you're ok.
-Andi
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