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From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 47/75] x86/sev-es: Add Runtime #VC Exception Handler
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 01:48:31PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> The most important use-case is #VC->NMI->#VC. When an NMI hits while the
> #VC handler uses the GHCB and the NMI handler causes another #VC, then
> the contents of the GHCB needs to be backed up, so that it doesn't
> destroy the GHCB contents of the first #VC handling path.

That's a good example, please add it to the next version of the patch,
preferrably in a comment somewhere.

Thx.

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