Re: [PATCH v2 06/16] x86/cpu: Clear VMX feature flag if VMX is not fully enabled

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:05:24AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 14/11/19 19:32, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> >>> +			pr_err_once("x86/cpu: VMX disabled, IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL MSR unsupported\n");
> > 
> > My thought for having the print was to alert the user that something is
> > royally borked with their system.  There's nothing the user can do to fix
> > it per se, but it does indicate that either their hardware or the VMM
> > hosting their virtual machine is broken.  So maybe be more explicit about
> > it being a likely hardware/VMM issue?
> 
> Yes, good idea.

Yah, let's make sure it has some merit for users and doesn't make them
only shrug and ignore it.

Btw, Sean, are you sending a new version of this ontop of latest
tip/master or linux-next or so? I'd like to look at the rest of the bits
in detail.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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