Re: Should SEV-ES #VC use IST? (Re: [PATCH] Allow RDTSC and RDTSCP from userspace)

Borislav Petkov
2020-06-23T15:51:55Z

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:51:03PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Crashing out hard if the hypervisor is misbehaving is acceptable.  In a
> cloud, I as a customer would (threaten to?) take my credit card
> elsewhere, while for enterprise, I'd shout at my virtualisation vendor
> until a fix happened (also perhaps threaten to take my credit card
> elsewhere).

This is called customer, credit-card-enforced bug fixing.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.