After discussing with Joe, we gave it up (i.e. not depend on 
enabled-inside-smx;)

Thanks.
Shane

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Kiszka [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 2010年11月17日 15:56
To: Wang, Shane
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Cihula, Joseph
Subject: Re: [PATCH]KVM: VMX: Inform user about INTEL_TXT dependency

Am 17.11.2010 04:40, Shane Wang wrote:
> Inform user to either disable TXT in the BIOS or do TXT launch with tboot 
> before enabling KVM since some BIOSes do not set 
> FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_OUTSIDE_SMX bit when TXT is enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shane Wang <[email protected]>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff -r b1a2deff4c64 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c      Wed Nov 17 12:47:42 2010 -0500
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c      Wed Nov 17 12:49:52 2010 -0500
> @@ -1306,8 +1306,11 @@
>                       && tboot_enabled())
>                       return 1;
>               if (!(msr & FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_OUTSIDE_SMX)
> -                     && !tboot_enabled())
> +                     && !tboot_enabled()) {
> +                     printk(KERN_WARNING "kvm: disable TXT in the BIOS or "
> +                             " activate TXT before enabling KVM\n");

Thought you wanted to let this message depend on ENABLED_INSIDE_SMX?
However, if it's OK for you, I'm fine with it as well.

Thanks!
Jan

>                       return 1;
> +             }
>       }
>  
>       return 0;

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