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Message-ID: <548067ED.2020309@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:55:57 +0100
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] kvm: cpuid: fix the size of xsaves area



On 04/12/2014 09:24, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> The section of CPUID(EAX=0xd, ECX=1) in the spec which commit 
> f5c2290cd01e (KVM: cpuid: mask more bits in leaf 0xd and subleaves)
> mentioned is older than SDM. 
> 
> EBX: Bits 31-00: The size in bytes of the XSAVE area containing all 
> states enabled by XCR0|IA32_XSS.
> 
> The the value of EBX should represent the size of XCR0 related XSAVE 
> area since IA32_XSS is not used currently.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> index 646e6e8..70f0fa1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> @@ -477,7 +477,10 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_ent(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry, u32 function,
>  			do_cpuid_1_ent(&entry[i], function, idx);
>  			if (idx == 1) {
>  				entry[i].eax &= kvm_supported_word10_x86_features;
> -				entry[i].ebx = 0;
> +				if (entry[i].eax & F(XSAVES))
> +					entry[i].ebx = xstate_required_size(supported, true);
> +				else
> +					entry[i].ebx = xstate_required_size(supported, false);

On machines without XSAVES, this value is zero though.

Paolo

>  			} else {
>  				if (entry[i].eax == 0 || !(supported & mask))
>  					continue;
> 

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