This combination of AMDprocessors is not suitable for SMP?

This combination of AMDprocessors is not suitable for SMP?

[Michael Tokarev]

(yes there's no typo in $subject, it's an old formatting
bug in printk).

When booting kvm guest on an AMD CPU, guest kernel prints
this warning:

  WARNING: This combination of AMDprocessors is not suitable for SMP.

be it SMP or UP guest.  What's wrong with this "combination",
and can it be fixed?

Thanks!

/mjt

Re: This combination of AMDprocessors is not suitable for SMP?

[Andre Przywara]

Michael Tokarev wrote:
> (yes there's no typo in $subject, it's an old formatting
> bug in printk).
> 
> When booting kvm guest on an AMD CPU, guest kernel prints
> this warning:
> 
>  WARNING: This combination of AMDprocessors is not suitable for SMP.
> 
> be it SMP or UP guest.  What's wrong with this "combination",
> and can it be fixed?
The qemu64 CPU model KVM injects into the guest lets it see an AMD K7 
with 64bit extension. Only some AMD K7 (Athlon-MP) were certified for 
SMP support, so this code warns the user about an unsupported hardware.
When running KVM you can ignore this warning, as it only applies to 
non-KVM capable processors and has no meaning for virtual SMP anyway.

If you like this warning to disappear, you can use "-cpu host" (and 
probably loose migration capability) or wait for the new safe64 CPU 
type, which will use family 15 instead of 6.

Regards,
Andre.

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