Re: [PATCH v4 4/8] KVM: x86: nSVM: Redirect IA32_PAT accesses to either hPAT or gPAT

[Yosry Ahmed]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 03:43:12PM +0000, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 07:20:28AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Please trim your replies.  Scrolling through 100+ lines of quoted text to find
> > the ~12 lines of context that actually matter is annoying.
> 
> Ack.
>  
> > Actually, calling svm_set_l2_pat() when !is_guest_mode() is wrong too, no?  E.g.
> > shouldn't we end up with this?
> 
> legacy_gpat_semantics should only be set in guest mode, and it's cleared
> in pre-run, so before we can exit guest mode IIUC.

Never mind that, Jim just mentioned the cases of back-to-back
KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE.