On 07/19/2013 02:00 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 19/07/2013 22:59, H. Peter Anvin ha scritto:
>>>>>> - cpuid(KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
>>>>>> - memcpy(signature + 0, &ebx, 4);
>>>>>> - memcpy(signature + 4, &ecx, 4);
>>>>>> - memcpy(signature + 8, &edx, 4);
>>>>>> - signature[12] = 0;
>>>>>> -
>>>>>> - if (strcmp(signature, "KVMKVMKVM") == 0)
>>>>>> + if (kvm_para_available_function(KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE) ||
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> kvm_para_available_function(KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE_NEXT))
>>>>>> return true;
>>>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Nice catch. Just one small thing, you should loop until 0x40010000, as
>>>> done in arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h, in case one day a third
>>>> hypervisor implements three extensions (Hyper-V, KVM and its own set).
>>>>
>> Any way we can centralize this stuff?
>
> I guess a function cpuid_hypervisor_base("KVMKVMKVM") that does the scan?
>
Something like that.
-hpa
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