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The realtime preemption mini-summit

The realtime preemption mini-summit

Posted Oct 5, 2009 19:10 UTC (Mon) by bdonlan (guest, #51264)
In reply to: The realtime preemption mini-summit by dvhart
Parent article: The realtime preemption mini-summit

Buggy instructions can also be fixed in the kernel, however, and at least then you know about them. While this may be a bit unfeasable for Windows, there should be some kind of switch Linux can use to disable the SMI handling, and just pass things to the normal #UD handler. If you then include hooks for any operations needing emulation at the same time as loading new microcode to disable the hardware support, no problem.


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