From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>,
linux-coco@lists.linux.dev, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86/tdx: Do not print error message on non-present feature
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:28:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <amn_n5dykcLAHVoz@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260729085908.21368-1-jirislaby@kernel.org>
For the scope:
x86/virt/tdx
because this is no longer in KVM's purview.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2026, Jiri Slaby (SUSE) wrote:
> Before commit 165e77353831 below, the kernel did not print anything
> during boot if X86_FEATURE_TDX_HOST_PLATFORM was not present, unless TDX
> enablement was explicitly requested via a module parameter.
>
> After the commit, when attempting to load TDX automatically, this is
> emitted to the log:
> virt/tdx: TDX not supported by the host platform
>
> It is emitted with the "error" level, hence it is disturbing. It is not
> an error to run CPUs without the feature.
>
> Drop this silent-boot-breaking error message for the automatic
> initialization path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org>
> Fixes: 165e77353831 ("KVM: x86/tdx: Do VMXON and TDX-Module initialization during subsys init")
> Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Cc: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-29 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-29 8:59 [PATCH v2] KVM: x86/tdx: Do not print error message on non-present feature Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2026-07-29 9:45 ` Nikolay Borisov
2026-07-29 13:28 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-07-29 13:34 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=amn_n5dykcLAHVoz@google.com \
--to=seanjc@google.com \
--cc=bp@alien8.de \
--cc=chao.gao@intel.com \
--cc=dan.j.williams@intel.com \
--cc=dave.hansen@linux.intel.com \
--cc=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=jirislaby@kernel.org \
--cc=kas@kernel.org \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-coco@lists.linux.dev \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mingo@redhat.com \
--cc=rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com \
--cc=tglx@kernel.org \
--cc=x86@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.