Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: VMX: Extend VMX's #AC interceptor to handle split lock #AC in guest

[Nadav Amit]

> On Apr 2, 2020, at 3:27 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>  As I just verified, it's possible to load the vmware module parallel
>  to the KVM/VMX one.
> 
> So either we deal with it in some way or just decide that SLD and HV
> modules which do not have the MOD_INFO(sld_safe) magic cannot be loaded
> when SLD is enabled on the host. I'm fine with the latter :)
> 
> What a mess.

[ +Doug ]

Just to communicate the information that was given to me: we do intend to
fix the SLD issue in VMware and if needed to release a minor version that
addresses it. Having said that, there are other hypervisors, such as
virtualbox or jailhouse, which would have a similar issue.