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Message-ID: <20230724212150.GH3745454@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Mon, 24 Jul 2023 23:21:50 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>, Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 14/19] KVM: SVM: Check that the current CPU supports
 SVM in kvm_is_svm_supported()

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 01:18:54PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Check "this" CPU instead of the boot CPU when querying SVM support so that
> the per-CPU checks done during hardware enabling actually function as
> intended, i.e. will detect issues where SVM isn't support on all CPUs.

Is that a realistic concern?

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