Re: [patch 0/2] x86: Prevent Split-Lock-Detection wreckage on VMX hypervisors

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 06:43:19AM -0700, Kenneth R. Crudup wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2020, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > As Peter and myself don't have access to a SLD enabled machine, the
> > KVM/VMX part is untested. The module scan part works.
> 
> I just applied both of these patches to my (Linus' tip) tree, and unfortunately
> VMWare still hangs if split_lock_detect= is set to anything but "off".
> 
> Was there anything else I'd needed to do?

Hmm, you're not seeing this:

  +       pr_warn("disabled due to VMLAUNCH in module: %s\n", me->name);

fire when you load the vmware kernel module? Could you slip me a copy of
that thing by private mail?