Re: [PATCH 2/3] KVM: nSVM: Do not track EFER.SVME toggling in guest mode

From: Sean Christopherson

Date: Wed Feb 04 2026 - 21:12:53 EST


On Wed, Feb 04, 2026, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 01:15:45PM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > All that said, I agree that pulling the rug out from under the VM is a terrible
> > experience. What if we throw a triple fault at the vCPU so that L1 gets an
> > immediate SHUTDOWN (not a VM-Exit, a SHUTDOWN of the L1 vCPU), instead of running
> > random garbage from L2?
>
> I am fine with this too, anything is better than pulling the rug. I will
> send a v2 and probably drop patch 1 (unless you prefer that we keep it).

Drop it, otherwise we'll probably end up wasting several days bikeshedding the
name.