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2012 Dec 12
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[PATCH V5] x86/kexec: Change NMI and MCE handling on kexec path
...disengage the hardware NMI latch. * trap_nop This is a no op handler which irets immediately. It is actually in the middle of enable_nmis to reuse the iret instruction, without having a single lone aligned iret inflating the code side. And adds three new IDT entry helper routines: * _write_gate_lower This is a substitute for using cmpxchg16b to update a 128bit structure at once. It assumes that the top 64 bits are unchanged (and ASSERT()s the fact) and performs a regular write on the lower 64 bits. * _set_gate_lower This is functionally equivalent to the already present _s...