From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SVM: reliably detect if SVM was disabled by BIOS
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:30:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <467B96C8.1050500@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070621175122.GE25896@amd.com>
Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
>
> This patch adds an implementation to the svm is_disabled function to
> detect reliably if the BIOS disabled the SVM feature in the CPU. This
> fixes the issues with kernel panics when loading the kvm-amd module on
> machines where SVM is available but disabled.
>
>
Applied; thanks.
Is this msr documented anywhere? I assume it is implemented on all
processors with svm?
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-22 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-21 17:51 [PATCH] SVM: reliably detect if SVM was disabled by BIOS Joerg Roedel
2007-06-22 9:30 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-06-22 9:35 ` Joerg Roedel
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