linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 13/26] KVM: nSVM: Unify handling of VMRUN failures with proper cleanup

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Message-ID: <aYVB2qYZh1smeBBL@google.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 17:20:26 -0800
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@...ux.dev>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 13/26] KVM: nSVM: Unify handling of VMRUN failures with
 proper cleanup

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> There are currently two possible causes of VMRUN failures:

Might be worth qualifying this with:

  There are currently two possible causes of VMRUN failures emulated by
  KVM:

Because there are more than two causes in the APM and hardware, they're just not
emulated by KVM.