On 29/10/19 16:42, speck for Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 04:35:56PM +0100, speck for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> So the fix is independent of the NX pile, right? But OTOH, for testing the
>> NX stuff with all the various knobs and options the patch is needed I
>> assume.
> The fix is independent in a sense that its pure existence doesn't reveal
> anything under the embargo, but the issue that is fixed by it only
> happens with the NX pile applied.

On Intel it requires the NX pile to show up, for AMD it is a preexisting
bug that shows up with kvm-unit-tests; this is why I sent it out early.

Sorry about going incommunicado, I was travelling without my decryption
key.  I'll send it to Linus sometime this week so that it also has time
to propagate to stable series.

Paolo

> So yes, it is needed to test the NX
> patches with EPT disabled (or NPT disabled on AMD).