EDAC/mce_amd: Do not load edac_mce_amd module on guests
authorSmita Koralahalli <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@amd.com>
Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:27:40 +0000 (12:27 -0500)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Mon, 9 Aug 2021 10:35:43 +0000 (12:35 +0200)
commit767f4b620edadac579c9b8b6660761d4285fa6f9
tree7f44d29a7f821648bc0cfaac290b1c1a31d5d1ce
parente1ca90b7cc5cb5d3a38321cbb65ad36a59fcb574
EDAC/mce_amd: Do not load edac_mce_amd module on guests

Hypervisors likely do not expose the SMCA feature to the guest and
loading this module leads to false warnings. This module should not be
loaded in guests to begin with, but people tend to do so, especially
when testing kernels in VMs. And then they complain about those false
warnings.

Do the practical thing and do not load this module when running as a
guest to avoid all that complaining.

 [ bp: Rewrite commit message. ]

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Smita Koralahalli <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Tested-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210628172740.245689-1-Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@amd.com
drivers/edac/mce_amd.c