From 0b22930ebad563ae97ff3f8d7b9f12060b4c6e6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 10:29:36 -0700 Subject: x86/nmi/64: Improve nested NMI comments I found the nested NMI documentation to be difficult to follow. Improve the comments. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c index d8766b1c..d05bd2e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c @@ -408,8 +408,8 @@ static void default_do_nmi(struct pt_regs *regs) NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(default_do_nmi); /* - * NMIs can hit breakpoints which will cause it to lose its NMI context - * with the CPU when the breakpoint or page fault does an IRET. + * NMIs can page fault or hit breakpoints which will cause it to lose + * its NMI context with the CPU when the breakpoint or page fault does an IRET. * * As a result, NMIs can nest if NMIs get unmasked due an IRET during * NMI processing. On x86_64, the asm glue protects us from nested NMIs -- cgit v1.1