On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 04:20:45PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 13.10.2022 15:50, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > I was under the impression that the command line ssbd option was added > > to cope with Xen not exposing the feature to guests. Now that the > > feature is exposed guests should be free to make use of it, and hence > > there's no need to force a value for Xen. > > ... me not having had this understanding may have been wrong on my part. > Andrew - any chance you could clarify (original) intentions here?
I realized I wasn't taking PV into account, and PV guests on AMD cannot set ssbd, so the option cannot be removed. Thanks, Roger.
