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> The reason why soft lockup happens may be the unmapped EPT pages. So, do we
> have a way to map all gpa
> before we use pebs on Skylake?

Can you configure a VT-d device, that will implicitly pin all pages for the
IOMMU. I *think* that should be enough for testing.

-Andi