[PATCH 33/44] KVM: x86: Do VMX/SVM support checks directly in vendor code
Huang, Kai
kai.huang at intel.com
Tue Nov 15 14:50:58 PST 2022
On Wed, 2022-11-02 at 23:19 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> +static bool __init kvm_is_vmx_supported(void)
> +{
> + if (!cpu_has_vmx()) {
> + pr_err("CPU doesn't support VMX\n");
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL) ||
> + !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_VMX)) {
> + pr_err("VMX not enabled in MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL\n");
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + return true;
> +}
> +
> static int __init vmx_check_processor_compat(void)
> {
> struct vmcs_config vmcs_conf;
> struct vmx_capability vmx_cap;
>
> - if (!this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL) ||
> - !this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_VMX)) {
> - pr_err("VMX is disabled on CPU %d\n", smp_processor_id());
> + if (!kvm_is_vmx_supported())
> return -EIO;
> - }
>
Looks there's a functional change here -- the old code checks local cpu's
feature bits but the new code always checks bsp's feature bits. Should have no
problem I think, though.
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