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

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 17:41 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > +               entry->eax = min(cap.version, 2)
> > > +                       | (cap.num_counters_gp << 8)
> > > +                       | (cap.bit_width_gp << 16)
> > > +                       | (cap.events_mask_len << 24); 


> Do you mean by doing cpuid here directly instead of checking perf
> capability?

No I meant something like:
        
        union cpuid10_eax eax;
        
        eax.version	 = min(cap.version, 2);
        eax.bit_width	 = cap.bit_width;
        eax.num_counters = cap.num_counters;
        eax.mask_length	 = cap.mask_length;
        
        entry->eax = eax.full;
        

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