From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmx,svm: Add module parameter to ignore the 'in use' check
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:14:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1309853683.4117.33.camel@sasha> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E12C6A1.70105@redhat.com>
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 11:09 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/05/2011 02:09 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > Add a module parameter 'check_inuse' to allow disabling the check of whether
> > virtualization has already been enabled on the given cpu.
> >
> > This is needed to deal with broken BIOS which set the SVM/VMX bit by default.
>
> Please split the vmx and svm parts.
>
> What machine was this? Did you try a BIOS update/complaint to
> manufacturer/etc? Let's try the proper channels before workarounds.
>
I have no information about the machine.
It was the result of trying to debug an issue reported on IRC where we
found that the SVM flag is being set after boot even before the kvm
module is loaded.
--
Sasha.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-05 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-04 23:09 [PATCH 1/2] vmx,svm: Add module parameter to ignore the 'in use' check Sasha Levin
2011-07-04 23:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] vmx,svm: Print errors if SVM or VMX were already set Sasha Levin
2011-07-05 0:42 ` Alexander Graf
2011-07-05 6:16 ` Tian, Kevin
2011-07-05 6:14 ` Tian, Kevin
2011-07-05 8:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] vmx,svm: Add module parameter to ignore the 'in use' check Avi Kivity
2011-07-05 8:14 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2011-07-05 9:11 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-07-05 9:32 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-05 9:37 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-05 9:56 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-05 10:37 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-05 11:07 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-05 11:14 ` Avi Kivity
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