Re: [PATCH 18/22] KVM: SVM: add GMET bit definitions

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 01:22:10PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 1:17 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is the key question: what in userspace is going to parse /proc/cpuinfo
> > and look for "gmet"?
> 
> To be honest probably not. They can open /dev/kvm and call
> KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID to get the same information.
> 
> The difference is that /proc/cpuinfo will always have gmet even if the
> module parameter is zero, while /dev/kvm won't. Based on your other
> message, it seems like you want this to be a bug rather than a
> feature, so let's shelve this, can you ack it with "" instead?

Right, you don't need to add any "" anymore - just a normal comment and that's
it. Lemme reply to the patch.

And *if* we ever decide that we need to show it to userspace, we can always do
that later but then we'll actually have a proper justification for doing so.

Thx.

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    Boris.

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