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[A] KVM module in 4.13 no longer supports old Intel CPUs

Bug #1738982 reported by Fabian Grünbichler
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Bug Description

== SRU Justification ==

Impact: systems with CPUs lacking virtual NMI support are no longer able to load the kvm_intel module, and thus not able to use KVM functionality

Fix: cherry-pick re-introducing support for software NMI support

Regression Potential: applied upstream in 4.15 and 4.14.3, tested and verified by multiple people

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the original dropping of support was (functionally) reverted after upstream got notified of how many CPUs were actually affected

see https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<email address hidden> for upstream patch re-introducing support
see https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<email address hidden> for the original upstream patch dropping support and following discusison

I'll send an SRU patch.

Fabian Grünbichler (f-gruenbichler)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Fabian Grünbichler (f-gruenbichler) wrote :

patch sent

Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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