Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] Add support for AMD Core Perf Extension in guest

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:13:47AM -0600, Natarajan, Janakarajan wrote:
> On 11/15/2017 1:07 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 01:04:03PM -0600, Natarajan, Janakarajan wrote:
> > > So, when the amd_pmu_init is called, a query to guest_cpuid_family() gives a
> > > value of -1.
> > And that is because...? And it can be fixed to give the proper guest family I
> > presume ...?
> 
> Qemu initially creates a vcpu with KVM_CREATE_VCPU which in kvm initializes
> the pmu. Later on
> the cpuid is set using KVM_SET_CPUID2 which sets all the cpuid entries in
> kvm and the pmu refresh is called.

That doesn't answer my questions above.

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