Thread (239 messages) 239 messages, 19 authors, 2022-09-19

Re: [PATCH Part2 v5 00/45] Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) Hypervisor Support

From: Joerg Roedel <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-15 16:36:57
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On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 06:34:52PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
I'm not treating it nonchalantly, merely acknowledging that (a) some flavors of kernel
bugs (or hardware issues!) are inherently fatal to the system, and (b) crashing the
host may be preferable to continuing on in certain cases, e.g. if continuing on has a
high probablity of corrupting guest data.
The problem here is that for SNP host-side RMP faults it will often not
be clear at fault-time if it was caused by wrong guest or host behavior. 

I agree with Marc that crashing the host is not the right thing to do in
this situation. Instead debug data should be collected to do further
post-mortem analysis.

Regards,

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Jörg Rödel
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