Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86: introduce hypervisor_cpuid_base()

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Jul 23 2013 - 12:04:33 EST


On 07/23/2013 04:16 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> That's nicer, though strcmp is what the replaced code used to do in
> patches 2 and 3.
>
> Note that memcmp requires the caller to use "KVMKVMKVM\0\0" as the
> signature (or alternatively hypervisor_cpuid_base can copy the argument
> into another 12-byte local variable).
>

Which is the actual signature, though...

-hpa


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