On Mon, Jul 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM Jim Mattson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2026 at 5:02 PM Tina Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I will take another look for the next version and try to handle the > > remaining pieces properly, while also making sure we don't expose stale > > or incorrectly synthesized decode-assist state for emulated exits. > > Naples erratum 1096 seems to imply that the instruction bytes stored > in the VMCB are not necessarily the same instruction bytes that were > fetched and decoded to lead to the #PF/#NPF. Hence, in the case of > emulation, it might be sufficient to read the instruction bytes quite > late in nested_svm_vmexit(). That would certainly simplify the > plumbing.
Would not passing through this feature when erratum 1096 is present simplify this? -- vs;
