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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:19:55 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@...hat.com>,
        Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] KVM: x86: Unhost the *_CMD MSR mess

On 3/22/23 02:14, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Revert the FLUSH_L1D enabling, which has multiple fatal bugs, clean up
> the existing PRED_CMD handling, and reintroduce FLUSH_L1D virtualization
> without inheriting the mistakes made by PRED_CMD.
> 
> The last patch hardens SVM against one of the bugs introduced in the
> FLUSH_L1D enabling.
> 
> I'll post KUT patches tomorrow.  I have the tests written (and they found
> bugs in my code, :shocked-pikachu:), just need to write the changelogs.
> Wanted to get this out sooner than later as I'm guessing I'm not the only
> one whose VMs won't boot on Intel CPUs...

Hi Sean,

did you post them?

Paolo