This avoids an unnecessary (and always somewhat scary) log message for the recovered from #GP(0).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> --- Perhaps even use "== 6" in the family check? --- a/xen/arch/x86/spec_ctrl.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/spec_ctrl.c @@ -453,7 +453,8 @@ static bool __init check_smt_enabled(voi * At the time of writing, it is almost completely undocumented, so isn't * virtualised reliably. */ - if ( boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL && !cpu_has_hypervisor && + if ( boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL && + boot_cpu_data.x86 != 0xf && !cpu_has_hypervisor && !rdmsr_safe(MSR_INTEL_CORE_THREAD_COUNT, val) ) return (MASK_EXTR(val, MSR_CTC_CORE_MASK) != MASK_EXTR(val, MSR_CTC_THREAD_MASK));