Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Document a virtualization gap for GIF on AMD CPUs
From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Nov 18 2025 - 18:28:24 EST
On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:37:57 +0000, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> According to the APM Volume #2, Section 15.17, Table 15-10 (24593—Rev.
> 3.42—March 2024), When "GIF==0", an "Debug exception or trap, due to
> breakpoint register match" should be "Ignored and discarded".
>
> KVM lacks any handling of this. Even when vGIF is enabled and vGIF==0,
> the CPU does not ignore #DBs and relies on the VMM to do so.
>
> [...]
Applied to kvm-x86 svm, thanks!
[1/1] KVM: x86: Document a virtualization gap for GIF on AMD CPUs
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/9f4ce4878878
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