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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/1] x86/tdx: Handle MWAIT, MONITOR and WBINVD
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On 3/31/21 3:06 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> I've no objection to a nice message in the #VE handler. What I'm objecting to
> is sanity checking the CPUID model provided by the TDX module. If we don't
> trust the TDX module to honor the spec, then there are a huge pile of things
> that are far higher priority than MONITOR/MWAIT.

In other words: Don't muck with CPUID or the X86_FEATURE at all. Don't
check it to comply with the spec. If something doesn't comply, we'll
get a #VE at *SOME* point. We don't need to do belt-and-suspenders
programming here.

That sounds sane to me.

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