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Re: kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12

From Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12
Date 2017-08-07 20:00 +0200
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On 07/08/2017 19:17, Sebastian Rachuj wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you for looking into the issue. My cpuinfo is as follows:
>>
>> Looks like Intel was already differentiating virtualization features
>> across SKUs.  Please run the attached script as root to see what other
>> things are different (apparently) between non-Xeon and Xeon Conroes.
> 
> Here you are, I hope it helps:

Not much to say, unfortunately.  It's pretty much the same capabilities
as a Prescott/Cedar Mill processor, except that it has MSR bitmaps.  It
also lacks FlexPriority compared to the Conroe I had checked.

It's not great that even the revert patch doesn't apply cleanly---this
is *not* necessarily a boring area of the hypervisor...

Given the rarity of your machine I'm currently leaning towards _not_
reverting the change.  I'll check another non-Xeon Core 2 tomorrow that
is from December 2008 (IIRC).  If that one also lacks vNMI, or if I get
other reports, I suppose I will have to reconsider that.

Paolo

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kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12 "Sebastian Rachuj" <Rachus@web.de> - 2017-08-05 21:30 +0200
  Re: kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-08-06 23:20 +0200
    Re: kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12 Sebastian Rachuj <rachus@web.de> - 2017-08-06 23:30 +0200
      Re: kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-08-07 11:50 +0200
        Re: kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12 Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2017-08-07 19:20 +0200
        Re: kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12 Sebastian Rachuj <rachus@web.de> - 2017-08-07 19:20 +0200
          Re: kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-08-07 20:00 +0200
            Re: kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12 Sebastian Rachuj <rachus@web.de> - 2017-08-07 20:50 +0200
            Re: Re: kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12 Niall Walsh <lkml@celtux.org> - 2017-08-08 23:50 +0200

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