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authorAndrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>2021-01-13 15:14:58 -0800
committerAndrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>2021-01-13 15:14:58 -0800
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Clean up NMI/mepc wording
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diff --git a/src/machine.tex b/src/machine.tex
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+++ b/src/machine.tex
@@ -2584,8 +2584,8 @@ Non-maskable interrupts (NMIs) are only used for hardware error
conditions, and cause an immediate jump to an implementation-defined
NMI vector running in M-mode regardless of the state of a hart's
interrupt enable bits. The {\tt mepc} register is written with the
-address of the next instruction to be executed at the time the NMI was
-taken, and {\tt mcause} is set to a value indicating the source of the
+virtual address of the instruction that was interrupted,
+and {\tt mcause} is set to a value indicating the source of the
NMI. The NMI can thus overwrite state in an active machine-mode
interrupt handler.