Re: [RFC PATCH v2.1] x86/sev-es: Handle NMI State

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Fri Mar 20 2020 - 15:43:00 EST


On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 07:42:09AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> FWIW, perf plus the x86 selftests run in a big loop was my best way of
> stressing the NMI path when we mucked with it for PTI. The selftests
> make sure to hit some of the more rare entry/exit paths.

Yeah, I ran the x86 selftests in an SEV-ES guest on-top of these
patches, that works. But doing this together with 'perf top' is also on
the list of tests to do.

Regards,

Joerg