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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: fix cpuid eax
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst () redhat ! com>
Date: 2012-04-30 20:41:27
Message-ID: 20120430204126.GA14876 () redhat ! com
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 03:37:14PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 04/30/2012 09:39 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >cpuid eax should return the max leaf so that
> >guests can find out the valid range.
> >This matches Xen et al.
>
> What KVM does here predates Xen and Hyper-V.
>
> This is an ABI breaker.
It is? I tested an old guest and qemu and both work fine.
What breaks?
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
> >
> >Tested using -cpu host.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin<mst@redhat.com>
> >---
> > arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> >index 7d00d2d..bda4877 100644
> >--- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> >+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> >@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static int do_cpuid_ent(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry, u32 function,
> > case KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE: {
> > char signature[12] = "KVMKVMKVM\0\0";
> > u32 *sigptr = (u32 *)signature;
> >- entry->eax = 0;
> >+ entry->eax = KVM_CPUID_FEATURES;
> > entry->ebx = sigptr[0];
> > entry->ecx = sigptr[1];
> > entry->edx = sigptr[2];
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