Re: SEV-ES guest shutdown: linux-next regression with QEMU 10.2.2; smp>1

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 3/20/26 17:08, Aithal, Srikanth wrote:
> Questions:
>
> KVM: Is the interaction/issue with older QEMU (e.g. v10.2.2) expected 
> here, or is there anything that should be adjusted or documented 
> following 428afac5a8ea, like for multi-vCPU SEV-ES guests?

No, it's not.

> QEMU: Would a stable backport of 56d89db2cfd8 to 10.2.x (or equivalent 
> handling of SEV-ES termination) be appropriate for users staying on 
> stable QEMU while moving to newer host kernels?

It's not a commit I was expecting to have any effect in practice, but it 
does improve user experience a little bit when things go south in the 
kernel, so we could backport it.

Paolo