Article 6AJ41 [$] Seeking an acceptable unaccepted memory policy

[$] Seeking an acceptable unaccepted memory policy

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Operating systems have traditionally used all of the memory that thehardware provides to them. The advent of virtualization and confidentialcomputing is changing this picture somewhat, though; the system can now bemore picky about which memory it will use. Patches to add support forexplicit memory acceptance when running under AMD's Secure EncryptedVirtualization and Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP), though, have runinto some turbulence over how to handle a backward-compatibility issue.
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