From: Joerg Roedel This patch adds an implementation to the svm is_disabled function to detect reliably if the BIOS disabled the SVM feature in the CPU. This fixes the issues with kernel panics when loading the kvm-amd module on machines where SVM is available but disabled. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/kvm/svm.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/kvm/svm.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/kvm/svm.c +++ b/drivers/kvm/svm.c @@ -1727,6 +1727,12 @@ static void svm_inject_page_fault(struct static int is_disabled(void) { + u64 vm_cr; + + rdmsrl(MSR_VM_CR, vm_cr); + if (vm_cr & (1 << SVM_VM_CR_SVM_DISABLE)) + return 1; + return 0; } --- a/drivers/kvm/svm.h +++ b/drivers/kvm/svm.h @@ -175,8 +175,11 @@ struct __attribute__ ((__packed__)) vmcb #define SVM_CPUID_FUNC 0x8000000a #define MSR_EFER_SVME_MASK (1ULL << 12) +#define MSR_VM_CR 0xc0010114 #define MSR_VM_HSAVE_PA 0xc0010117ULL +#define SVM_VM_CR_SVM_DISABLE 4 + #define SVM_SELECTOR_S_SHIFT 4 #define SVM_SELECTOR_DPL_SHIFT 5 #define SVM_SELECTOR_P_SHIFT 7 -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/