Re: [PATCH v2] x86/nSVM: Expose the FlushByASID CPU feature support to L1 guests

Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.xen.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 26.08.2026 20:09, Abdelkareem Abdelsaamad wrote:
> Some hypervisors explicitly require FlushByASID capability to function under
> nested virtualization; otherwise, they fail to boot or run nested guests, see
> see Xen's start_nested_svm and (1) and (2). To ensure functional nested
> virtualization support and allow L1 hypervisors to correctly detect this
> hardware capability, extend the exposed HVM CPU policy to surface the
> FlushByASID CPU feature to the L1 guests when nestedhvm is enabled.
> 
> (1) VMWare (Launchpad Bug #2008583) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2008583
> (2) https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/T/#u
> 
> Signed-off-by: Abdelkareem Abdelsaamad <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>

For the future: Please send patches To: just the list, with maintainers
uniformly on Cc:.

Jan
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