Re: [PATCH 18/18] KVM: X86: Add KVM_CAP_SVM_CPUID_FIXED

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Wed Mar 10 2010 - 09:47:10 EST


On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:39:31AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.

Ok, sounds good too. I have some more fixes queued up and send this one
together with them.

Joerg


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