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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 04/20] x86/cpu: Detect TDX partial write machine check
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On 6/4/23 07:27, Kai Huang wrote:
> TDX memory has integrity and confidentiality protections.  Violations of
> this integrity protection are supposed to only affect TDX operations and
> are never supposed to affect the host kernel itself.  In other words,
> the host kernel should never, itself, see machine checks induced by the
> TDX integrity hardware.

At the risk of patting myself on the back by acking a changelog that I
wrote 95% of:

Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>