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...he kexec behaviour to be safer in more circumstances. This patch adds three new low level routines: * nmi_crash This is a special NMI handler for using during a kexec crash. * enable_nmis This function enables NMIs by executing an iret-to-self, to 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 fo...

Hello, This series has been split into two patches, one for arm and one for x86. I figured that this was easier than doing it as a single combined patch, especially as the changes are functionally independent. x86 has been boot tested, but arm has not even been compile tested as I lack a suitable cross compiler. However, the changes are just text replacement, so I dont expect any issues. The