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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 9/25/25 19:28, Yan Zhao wrote: >> Lastly, Yan raised some last minute doubts internally about TDX >> module locking contention. I’m not sure there is a problem, but we >> can come to an agreement as part of the review. > Yes, I found a contention issue that prevents us from dropping the > global lock. I've also written a sample test that demonstrates this > contention. But what is the end result when this contention happens? Does everyone livelock?