From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: speck@linutronix.de
Subject: [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v2.1 4/6] [PATCH v2.1 4/6] Patch #4
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:43:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180621084310.GS2494@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180620204351.997227234@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 04:43:00PM -0400, speck for konrad.wilk_at_oracle.com wrote:
> x86/KVM: Warn user if KVM is loaded SMT and L1TF CPU bug being present.
>
> If the L1TF CPU bug is present we allow the KVM module to be loaded
> as the major of users that use Linux and KVM have trusted guests
> and do not want a broken setup.
Why on module load? Doesn't the module get loaded unconditionally? My
desktop seems to have it loaded and I'm pretty sure i've never used KVM
on it.
Would it not make more sense to do this in kvm_create_vm() ? Then only
people actually using KVM get to deal with it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-21 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-20 20:43 [MODERATED] [PATCH v2.1 4/6] [PATCH v2.1 4/6] Patch #4 konrad.wilk
2018-06-21 8:43 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-06-21 13:56 ` [MODERATED] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-06-21 17:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-06-21 11:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-06-21 23:05 ` Andi Kleen
2018-06-22 9:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
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