From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] KVM: nSVM: Do not track EFER.SVME toggling in guest mode
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 18:10:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aYP8HGQrj2aW6NGJ@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <byogsjz2vljtzvr7ar4wefm3mrzqxboujz2yugsszgrtkluyks@phifb333vw45>
On Wed, Feb 04, 2026, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 01:15:45PM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > All that said, I agree that pulling the rug out from under the VM is a terrible
> > experience. What if we throw a triple fault at the vCPU so that L1 gets an
> > immediate SHUTDOWN (not a VM-Exit, a SHUTDOWN of the L1 vCPU), instead of running
> > random garbage from L2?
>
> I am fine with this too, anything is better than pulling the rug. I will
> send a v2 and probably drop patch 1 (unless you prefer that we keep it).
Drop it, otherwise we'll probably end up wasting several days bikeshedding the
name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-05 2:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-30 2:07 [PATCH 0/3] KVM: nSVM: Stop tracking EFER.SVME in guest mode Yosry Ahmed
2026-01-30 2:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: SVM: Refactor EFER.SVME switching logic out of svm_set_efer() Yosry Ahmed
2026-02-04 18:49 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-01-30 2:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: nSVM: Do not track EFER.SVME toggling in guest mode Yosry Ahmed
2026-02-04 21:15 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-02-04 23:30 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-02-05 2:10 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-01-30 2:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: selftests: Add a test for L2 toggling EFER.SVME Yosry Ahmed
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