Re: [PATCH v1 00/24] Opt-in always-on nVHE hypervisor

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Nov 10 2020 - 05:15:51 EST


On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 11:32:09AM +0000, David Brazdil wrote:
> As we progress towards being able to keep guest state private to the
> host running nVHE hypervisor, this series allows the hypervisor to
> install itself on newly booted CPUs before the host is allowed to run
> on them.

Why? I thought we were trying to kill nVHE off now that newer CPUs
provide the saner virtualization extensions?