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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 59/75] x86/sev-es: Handle MONITOR/MONITORX Events
    On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 02:33:12PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
    > I don't think there is any guarantee that MONITOR/MWAIT would work within a
    > guest (I'd have to dig some more on that to get a definitive answer, but
    > probably not necessary to do). As you say, if KVM emulates it as a NOP,
    > there's no sense in exposing the GPA - make it a NOP in the handler. I just
    > need to poke some other hypervisor vendors and hear what they have to say.

    Okay, makes sense. I made monitor/mwait nops in the patch-set.

    Regards,

    Joerg

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