Re: [PATCH v5 13/19] x86/cpufeatures: Add flag to track whether MSR IA32_FEAT_CTL is configured

[Jacob Keller]

On 2/26/2020 12:57 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Bummer.  Using clear_cpu_cap() instead of setup_clear_cpu_cap() was me
> being fancy and trying to allow KVM to identify the case where VMX is
> available and configured on some CPUs but not all.  I'll work on a fix.
> 
Hmm. Right. For that to work, you'd need to make this disabling happen
significantly later, and/or fix setup_pku to somehow honor this properly.

But it looks like rdmsr is global and not tied to a given CPU anyways?

Thanks,
Jake