Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/SVM: correct boot time cpu_data[] handling

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/02/2017 08:08 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> start_svm() already runs after cpu_data[] was set up, so it shouldn't
> modify it anymore (at least not directly). Constify the involved
> pointers.
>
> Furthermore LMSLE feature detection was broken by 566ddbe833 ("x86:
> Fail CPU bringup cleanly if it cannot initialise HVM"), as Andrew
> Cooper has pointed out: c couldn't possibly equal &boot_cpu_data
> anymore.

I can't find Andrew's email --- why is this not possible?

-boris


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