From: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
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
--
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