Why is the SVM flag visible in /proc/cpuinfo after VT is disabled in the BIOS?

Issue

• The VT(Virtualization technology) is disabled from BIOS, however the svm cpu flag still getting exposed to userspace i.e /proc/cpuinfo output.

$ dmesg | grep SVM
[    6.977561] kvm_amd: SVM disabled (by BIOS) in MSR_VM_CR on CPU 9

$ grep -wo svm /proc/cpuinfo  | uniq -c 
     96 svm