Re: [PATCH] kvm-intel: Auto-load on CPUs with VMX.

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/21/2012 08:33 AM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Enable x86 feature-based autoloading for the kvm-intel module on CPUs
> with X86_FEATURE_VMX.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> I've tested this and it works correctly.  I can also supply the obvious
> equivalent patch for kvm-amd on AMD CPUs with SVM, but I don't have any
> such CPUs to test that on.
>

On the one hand this makes sense and is consistent with how other
modules are loaded.  On the other hand this will waste memory for
non-virt users running on distro kernels (but distro kernels can
override this new behaviour anyway).

I'm inclined to apply, but will wait for more comments.

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