Re: [PATCH] [19/50] Experimental: detect if SVM is disabled by BIOS

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To: Andi Kleen <ak@...>
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Date: Saturday, September 22, 2007 - 5:17 am

I don't think we need this patch. When SVM is disabled KVM will tell on
module load. Further with SVM-lock it will be possible to re-enable SVM
even if it was disabled by BIOS using a key. In this case the user of
SVM has to clear the capability bit you set in this patch for all cpus.

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:32:18AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
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[PATCH] [0/50] x86 2.6.24 patches review II, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:31 pm)
[PATCH] [50/50] x86_64: Remove fpu io port resource, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:32 pm)
[PATCH] [42/50] i386: constify wd_ops, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:32 pm)
[PATCH] [40/50] i386: Fix section mismatch, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:32 pm)
[PATCH] [36/50] x86: Use raw locks during oopses, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [34/50] i386: Fix argument signedness warnings, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Sep 22, 6:01 am)
[PATCH] [30/50] x86_64: remove some dead code, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:32 pm)
[PATCH] [28/50] i386: remove stub early_printk.c, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:32 pm)
[PATCH] [22/50] i386: Misc cpuinit annotations, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:32 pm)
[PATCH] [21/50] i386: Misc cpuinit annotations, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [19/50] Experimental: detect if SVM is disabled ..., Joerg Roedel, (Sat Sep 22, 5:17 am)
[PATCH] [17/50] x86_64: remove STR() macros, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:32 pm)
[PATCH] [6/50] i386: clean up oops/bug reports, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [6/50] i386: clean up oops/bug reports, Chuck Ebbert, (Fri Sep 21, 6:41 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [6/50] i386: clean up oops/bug reports, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Sep 22, 5:47 am)
[PATCH] [8/50] x86_64: remove x86_cpu_to_log_apicid, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:32 pm)
[PATCH] [5/50] i386: change order in Kconfig.cpu, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [4/50] x86: add cpu codenames for Kconfig.cpu, Thomas Gleixner, (Sat Sep 22, 1:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [4/50] x86: add cpu codenames for Kconfig.cpu, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Sep 22, 5:46 am)
[PATCH] [3/50] x86_64: remove never used apic_mapped, Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 6:32 pm)