Bug 209809

Summary:	kernel: x86/cpu: VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS
Product:	Virtualization	Reporter:	Nicolo' (nicolopiazzalunga)
Component:	kvm	Assignee:	virtualization_kvm
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	nicolopiazzalunga
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	5.6	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Nicolo' 2020-10-22 10:15:50 UTC

It is likely not a bug in itself, just annoying.
Since maybe 5.6 series, with virtualization disabled in BIOS, I get this warning in my journal:

kernel: x86/cpu: VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS

Is it necessary to produce a message at the 'warning' level?
Would it be possible instead to do it at the 'notice' or lower level?

Comment 1 Nicolo' 2021-04-30 11:20:33 UTC

More precisely, one could replace 'pr_err_once' with 'pr_notice_once' in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bb02e2cb715a3f3552dbe765ea4a07799e4dff43