On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 05:08:20PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!(msr & FEATURE_CONTROL_LOCKED))) > + return 1; > + > + /* launched w/ TXT and VMX disabled */ > + if (!(msr & FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_INSIDE_SMX) && > + tboot_enabled()) > + return 1; > + /* launched w/o TXT and VMX only enabled w/ TXT */ > + if (!(msr & FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_OUTSIDE_SMX) && > + (msr & FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_INSIDE_SMX) && > + !tboot_enabled()) { > + pr_warn("kvm: disable TXT in the BIOS or " > + "activate TXT before enabling KVM\n"); > + return 1; Might as well fix that with a cleanup patch ontop: WARNING: quoted string split across lines #69: FILE: arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:2208: + pr_warn("kvm: disable TXT in the BIOS or " + "activate TXT before enabling KVM\n"); Also in that same cleanup patch, if the order of those tests doesn't matter, you can simplify them a bit: if (tboot_enabled()) { /* msr flag test here */ /* tboot disabled */ } else { /* other two tests here */ } Should make it a bit easier to parse. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette