Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86/tdx: Use ReportFatalError to report missing SEPT_VE_DISABLE

[Dave Hansen]

On 12/9/22 12:51, Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy wrote:
>>>> +	while (1) {
>>>> +		__tdx_hypercall(&args, 0);
>>>> +	}
>>> Instead of an infinite loop, I'm wondering if the guest should panic after
>>> retrying for few times.
>> Hm. What difference would it make?
> IIUC, the goal of this patch is to report the fatal error to VMM and panic.
> But, if VMM does not terminate the guest as we expect, rather than trying 
> continuously, isn't it better to panic ourselves? That way the behavior
> will be similar to what we have currently.

What does "panic ourselves" mean exactly?  What is the current behavior
which that would match?