Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757447AbXJAVrR (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:47:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755916AbXJAVrH (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:47:07 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:48575 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753436AbXJAVrG (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:47:06 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: patches@x86-64.org Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [19/50] Experimental: detect if SVM is disabled by BIOS Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 23:45:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Joerg Roedel , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200709221231.836138000@suse.de> <200710011847.50533.andi@firstfloor.org> <20071001201222.GB1404@8bytes.org> In-Reply-To: <20071001201222.GB1404@8bytes.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710012345.22851.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 470 Lines: 15 > feature flag does not disappear when its disabled. But because with CPUs > having the SVM-lock feature it can be re-enabled in a secure way under > some circumstances Who would reenable it in what circumstances? -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/