Re: [PATCH v4 2/8] x86/bugs: Decouple ALTERNATIVE usage from VERW macro definition
From: Pawan Gupta
Date: Mon Nov 03 2025 - 12:44:31 EST
On Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 09:00:48AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2025, Pawan Gupta wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 05:30:34PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > Decouple the use of ALTERNATIVE from the encoding of VERW to clear CPU
> > > buffers so that KVM can use ALTERNATIVE_2 to handle "always clear buffers"
> > > and "clear if guest can access host MMIO" in a single statement.
> > >
> > > No functional change intended.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>