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From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/62] x86/sev-es: Add support for handling IOIO
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:49:50 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 02:28:06PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 5:53 AM Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> wrote:
> It would be nice if this could reuse the existing in-kernel
> instruction decoder.  Is there some reason it can't?

It does, see patch 5, which makes the inat-tables generator script
suitable for pre-decompression boot code. Actually every
instruction-caused #VC exception will decode the instruction to get its
length.

Regards,

	Joerg