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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/2] INVD intercept change to skip instruction
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 11:42 AM Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> wrote:
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> From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
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> This series updates the INVD intercept support for both SVM and VMX to
> skip the instruction rather than emulating it, since emulation of this
> instruction is just a NOP.

Isn't INVD a serializing instruction, whereas NOP isn't? IIRC, Intel
doesn't architect VM-entry or VM-exit as serializing, though they
probably are in practice. I'm not sure what AMD's stance on this is.

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