Re: [PATCHv2 7/9] KVM: Expose the architectural performancemonitoring CPUID leaf

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 14:33 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> +       case 0xa: { /* Architectural Performance Monitoring */
> +               struct x86_pmu_capability cap;
> +
> +               perf_get_x86_pmu_capability(&cap);
> +
> +               /*
> +                * Only support guest architectural pmu on a host
> +                * with architectural pmu.
> +                */
> +               if (!cap.version)
> +                       memset(&cap, 0, sizeof(cap));
> +
> +               entry->eax = min(cap.version, 2)
> +                       | (cap.num_counters_gp << 8)
> +                       | (cap.bit_width_gp << 16)
> +                       | (cap.events_mask_len << 24);
> +               entry->ebx = cap.events_mask;
> +               entry->ecx = 0;
> +               entry->edx = cap.num_counters_fixed
> +                       | (cap.bit_width_fixed << 5);
> +               break;
> +       } 

would it make sense to use the cpuid10_e[ad]x unions to fill out that
data?
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