2025-05-05T14:39:26-07:00, Atish Patra <atishp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Currently, we enable the smstateen bit at vcpu configure time by > only checking the presence of required ISA extensions. > > These bits are not required to be enabled if the guest never uses > the corresponding architectural state. Enable the smstaeen bits > at runtime lazily upon first access. What is the advantage of enabling them lazily? To make the trap useful, we would have to lazily perform initialization of the AIA. I think it would require notable changes to AIA, though... Thanks.
