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Re:Unexpected Page Fault In Virtualized Environment Advisory by strstr on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @04:19PM (#21756977)
Anyone know what conditions are required? The advisory is sparse on details.

The errata lists the same vague info: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...

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Re:Unexpected Page Fault In Virtualized Environment Advisory by erk__ on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @07:14PM (#21758244)
>November 2910

They seem to have gotten information about the bug from the future :P

This could also show that trhey released it in a hurry since they did not fix that typing mistake.

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Re:Unexpected Page Fault In Virtualized Environment Advisory by ars on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @08:18PM (#21758628)
It's not a typo, it's in Middle-endian format. :)
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Re:Unexpected Page Fault In Virtualized Environment Advisory by hinkley on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @12:33AM (#21759869)
It looks more like a concurrency bug to me.
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