On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 01:50:14PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > If SNP is the sole reason #VC needs to be IST, then I'd strongly urge > you to only make it IST if/when you try and make SNP happen, not before. It is not the only reason, when ES guests gain debug register support then #VC also needs to be IST, because #DB can be promoted into #VC then, and as #DB is IST for a reason, #VC needs to be too. Besides that, I am not a fan of delegating problems I already see coming to future-Joerg and future-Peter, but if at all possible deal with them now and be safe later. Regards, Joerg