From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dong, Eddie" Subject: RE: [PATCH 15/16] vmx: nest: capability reporting MSRs Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:10:00 +0800 Message-ID: <1A42CE6F5F474C41B63392A5F80372B22A90D09F@shsmsx501.ccr.corp.intel.com> References: <1283959344-3837-1-git-send-email-qing.he@intel.com> <201009151205.09118.Christoph.Egger@amd.com> <1A42CE6F5F474C41B63392A5F80372B22A8C23B3@shsmsx501.ccr.corp.intel.com> <201009151645.19714.Christoph.Egger@amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201009151645.19714.Christoph.Egger@amd.com> Content-Language: en-US List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Christoph Egger Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "Dong, Eddie" , "He, Qing" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Christoph Egger wrote: > On Wednesday 15 September 2010 16:28:29 Dong, Eddie wrote: >> Christoph Egger wrote: >>> On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:22:23 Qing He wrote: >>>> handles VMX capability reporting MSRs. >>>> Some features are masked so L1 would see a rather >>>> simple configuration >>>>=20 >>>> Signed-off-by: Qing He >>>> Signed-off-by: Eddie Dong >>>=20 >>> Are there any vmx capability features that are read out via cpuid ? >>> If yes, then that code belongs into the tools patch. >>=20 >> That is in 16.txt, you can include in your code. Once you fixed the >> MAX LEAF issue, I can ack that patch. >=20 > Andre tried you to explain why the MAXLEAF change is not a problem. > Is there an other problem ? >=20 I replied to him and figured out the problem. That is assuming Intel future processor won't implement more than 0x8...8 l= eaf, that is not good thing to do. And the name of MAX_LEAF is then wrong to Intel CPU.=