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SubjectRe: [PATCHv4 0/8] Virtual NMI feature
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On 10/7/2022 12:10 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, Santosh Shukla wrote:
>> If NMI virtualization enabled and NMI_INTERCEPT bit is unset
>> then HW will exit with #INVALID exit reason.
>>
>> To enable the VNMI capability, Hypervisor need to program
>> V_NMI_ENABLE bit 1.
>>
>> The presence of this feature is indicated via the CPUID function
>> 0x8000000A_EDX[25].
>
> Until there is publicly available documentation, I am not going to review this
> any further. This goes for all new features, e.g. PerfMonv2[*]. I understand
> the need and desire to get code merged far in advance of hardware being available,
> but y'all clearly have specs, i.e. this is a very solvable problem. Throw all the
> disclaimers you want on the specs to make it abundantly clear that they are for
> preview purposes or whatever, but reviewing KVM code without a spec just doesn't
> work for me.
>

Sure Sean.

I am told that the APM should be out in the next couple of weeks.

Thanks,
Santosh

> [*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220919093453.71737-1-likexu@tencent.com>

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