Re: [RFC PATCH v3 04/20] x86: Handle reduction in physical address size with SME

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Nov 15 2016 - 16:33:22 EST


On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 03:22:45PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> Hmmm... I still need the ebx value from the CPUID instruction to
> calculate the proper reduction in physical bits, so I'll still need
> to make the CPUID call.

if (c->extended_cpuid_level >= 0x8000001f) {
cpuid(0x8000001f, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);

...

just like the rest of get_cpu_cap() :)

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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