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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>

  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-29 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ 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 13:28 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-07-29 13:34 ` Edgecombe, Rick P

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