linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] KVM: VMX: Apply MMIO Stale Data mitigation if KVM maps MMIO into the guest

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Message-ID: <20250603012957.kgwfnihs4zkv5y4x@desk>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 18:29:57 -0700
From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] KVM: VMX: Apply MMIO Stale Data mitigation if KVM
 maps MMIO into the guest

On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 04:45:13PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Ah, and the s/mmio_stale_data_clear/cpu_buf_vm_clear rename already landed for
> 6.16-rc1, so we don't have to overthink about the ordering with respect to that
> change. :-)

Yeah, I noticed that. It went through the x86 tree as bulk of changes were
outside of KVM.