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Date:   Tue, 9 Nov 2021 22:33:43 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To:     Robert Hoo <robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/5] KVM: x86: nVMX: VMCS12 field's read/write
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2021, Robert Hoo wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-10-29 at 12:53 -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 5:05 PM Robert Hoo <robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 16:49 -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> > > > We have some internal patches for virtualizing VMCS shadowing
> > > > which
> > > > may break if there is a guest VMCS field with index greater than
> > > > VMX_VMCS_ENUM.MAX_INDEX. I plan to upstream them soon.
> > > 
> > > OK, thanks for letting us know.:-)
> > 
> > After careful consideration, we're actually going to drop these
> > patches rather than sending them upstream.
> 
> OK.
> 
> Hi, Paolo, Sean and Jim,
> 
> Do you think our this series patch are still needed or can be dropped
> as well?

IMO we should drop this series and take our own erratum.