linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/18] KVM: X86: Add KVM_CAP_SVM_CPUID

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Message-ID: <4B94C5D3.6070601@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:39:31 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/18] KVM: X86: Add KVM_CAP_SVM_CPUID_FIXED

On 03/03/2010 09:12 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> This capability shows userspace that is can trust the values
> of cpuid[0x8000000A] that it gets from the kernel. Old
> behavior was to just return the host cpuid values which is
> broken because all additional svm-features need support in
> the svm emulation code.
>
>    

A think we can simply fix the bug and push the fix to the various stable 
queues.

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