On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
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> By trading off some memory, we don't need this trickery.  We can allocate
> two nmi stacks, so the code becomes:

I really don't think you need even that. See earlier in the discussion
about how we could just test %rsp itself. Which makes all the %rip
testing totally unnecessary, because we don't even need any flags,and
we have no races because %rsp is atomically changed with taking the
exception.

Lookie here, the %rsp comparison really isn't that hard:

  nmi:
      pushq %rax
      pushq %rdx
      movq %rsp,%rdx          # current stack top
      movq 40(%rsp),%rax   # old stack top
      xor %rax,%rdx              # same 8kB aligned area?
      shrq $13,%rdx             # ignore low 13 bits
      je it_is_a_nested_nmi   # looks nested..
  non_nested:
      ...
      ... ok, we're not nested, do normal NMI handling ...
      ...
      popq %rdx
      popq %rax
      iret

  it_is_a_nested_nmi:
      cmpw $0,48(%rsp)     # double-check that it really was a nested exception
      jne non_nested           # from user space or something..
      # this is the nested case
      # NOTE! NMI's are blocked, we don't take any exceptions etc etc
      addq $-160,%rax        # 128-byte redzone on the old stack + 4 words
      movq (%rsp),%rdx
      movq %rdx,(%rax)       # old %rdx
      movq 8(%rsp),%rdx
      movq %rdx,8(%rax)     # old %rax
      movq 32(%rsp),%rdx
      movq %rdx,16(%rax)   # old %rflags
      movq 16(%rsp),%rdx
      movq %rdx,24(%rax)   # old %rip
      movq %rax,%rsp
      popq %rdx
      popq %rax
      popf
      ret $128                     # restore %rip and %rsp

doesn't that look pretty simple?

NOTE! OBVIOUSLY TOTALLY UNTESTED!

                            Linus
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