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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Smita Koralahalli <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@amd.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC/mce_amd: Reduce unnecessary spew in dmesg if SMCA feature bit is not exposed
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 19:25:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YMjipVYQO93i46HJ@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210615163221.GA2991@aus-x-yghannam.amd.com>

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 12:32:21PM -0400, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> Yes, I agree. I was a bit confused about the X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR
> thing, but I think I get it. This definitely looks simple to do.

Yeah, if you look at the qemu repo:

kvm_arch_get_supported_cpuid:

...

    } else if (function == 1 && reg == R_ECX) {
        /* We can set the hypervisor flag, even if KVM does not return it on
         * GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID
         */
        ret |= CPUID_EXT_HYPERVISOR;


so long story short, that thing is set by the HV and there's an
"agreement" of sorts and APM v3 even says so:

"CPUID Fn0000_0001_ECX Feature Identifiers

...

31:	RAZ. Reserved for use by hypervisor to indicate guest status."

HTH.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-15 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-14 21:21 [PATCH] EDAC/mce_amd: Reduce unnecessary spew in dmesg if SMCA feature bit is not exposed Smita Koralahalli
2021-06-14 22:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-06-14 22:25   ` Luck, Tony
2021-06-15  9:16     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-06-15 15:08       ` Yazen Ghannam
2021-06-15 15:18         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-06-15 16:00           ` Yazen Ghannam
2021-06-15 16:11             ` Borislav Petkov
2021-06-15 16:32               ` Yazen Ghannam
2021-06-15 16:45                 ` [PATCH] EDAC/Intel: Do not load EDAC driver when running as a guest Luck, Tony
2021-06-15 17:00                   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-06-15 17:44                     ` [PATCH v2] " Luck, Tony
2021-06-15 17:25                 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]

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