Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | [PATCH 2/2] KVM: SVM: Notify if SVM is already in use | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2011 20:30:18 +0200 |
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Currently we silently fail if SVM is already in use by a different virtualization technology.
This is bad since it's non-obvious for the user, and its not too uncommon for users to have several of these installed on same host.
This patch adds a message to notify the user of the problem.
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c index e32243e..8d1a066 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c @@ -587,8 +587,11 @@ static int svm_hardware_enable(void *garbage) int me = raw_smp_processor_id(); rdmsrl(MSR_EFER, efer); - if (efer & EFER_SVME) + if (efer & EFER_SVME) { + printk(KERN_ERR "svm_hardware_enable: SVM already in use on CPU%d. " + "Are you already another hypervisor?\n", me); return -EBUSY; + } if (!has_svm()) { printk(KERN_ERR "svm_hardware_enable: err EOPNOTSUPP on %d\n", -- 1.7.8.rc4
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