linux-kernel - Re: Shut up unhandled MSR warnings

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Date:	Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:33:33 +0100
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Jörg Rödel <joro@...tes.org>,
	kvm ML <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Shut up unhandled MSR warnings



On 12/11/2015 11:13, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hey Paolo,
> 
> do we apply stuff like that below?

If we really need to, we do.

> When booting guests all the time here, dmesg gets filled up with those
> "unhandled rdmsr" useless warnings. The patch below shuts them up.
> 
> The only problem is that the IC CFG MSR has those fields
> defined starting from F15h and I don't see a way to check the
> family/model/stepping of the guest CPU in kvm. Is there?

Yes, see guest_cpuid_has_* for an example of reading the CPUID values.

But if it's defined for _all_ models starting at family 21, we can just
do it unconditionally.

Paolo
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