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On Mon, Jun 08, 2026 at 04:33:46AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Further, on architectures with aliasing caches, upstream with init_on_alloc

Further to what?  Did you leave out some paragraphs here?

As far as I can tell, this patch series decides to trust that the
hypervisor has zeroed pages that it allocates to the guest.  But
as far as I can tell, the trend is towards less trust in the hypervisor
from the guest, not more.