Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:13:48 -0800 | From | Sean Christopherson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] KVM: SVM: Add support for Virtual SPEC_CTRL |
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2021, Babu Moger wrote: > > On 1/19/21 5:45 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Potentially harebrained alternative... > > > > From an architectural SVM perspective, what are the rules for VMCB fields that > > don't exist (on the current hardware)? E.g. are they reserved MBZ? If not, > > does the SVM architecture guarantee that reserved fields will not be modified? > > I couldn't (quickly) find anything in the APM that explicitly states what > > happens with defined-but-not-existent fields. > > I checked with our hardware design team about this. They dont want > software to make any assumptions about these fields.
Drat, I should have begged for forgiveness instead of asking for permission :-D
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