Hi Paolo, here is v4 of the groundwork patches for the upcoming SEV-ES support in the Linux kernel. They are part of both the client patch-set and the KVM hypervisor patches (under development). Patch 1 necessary to fix a compile warning about a stack-frame getting too large. Patches 2 and 3 define the Guest Hypervisor Communication Block (GHCB) and accessor functions and the last patch is a cleanup. This version addresses more review comments from Sean. Additionally the patches are now checkpatch-clean. It would be great if you could consider them for v5.9, so that the client and the hypervisor patch-sets can be developed more independently of each other. Please let me know what you think. Regards, Joerg Borislav Petkov (1): KVM: SVM: Use __packed shorthand Joerg Roedel (2): KVM: SVM: nested: Don't allocate VMCB structures on stack KVM: SVM: Add GHCB Accessor functions Tom Lendacky (1): KVM: SVM: Add GHCB definitions arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 47 +++++++++++------ arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 2 + 3 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1