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The pointer used to walk the table of move ops and pick the right one for the current GPU was declared static, meaning its state was carried over between invocations of the function, and also made the function non-rentrant and thread-unsafe. Since the table is ordered such that newer GPU methods are listed first, the result of this was that initializing newer GPUs after older GPUs would result in no suitable ttm move acceleration operations being found, and ttm would fall back to CPU blits on the older GPUs. This ch...

The self_nmi() code cause''s an NMI to be triggered by sending an APIC message to the local processor. However, NMIs are blocked by the VMEXIT, until the next iret or VMENTER. Volume 3 Chapter 27 Section 1 of the Intel SDM states: An NMI causes subsequent NMIs to be blocked, but only after the VM exit completes. As a result, as soon as the VMENTER happens, an immediate VMEXIT happens