Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 08/14] x86/cpuid: Handle leaf 0x80000008 in guest_cpuid()

2017-01-25 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 24.01.17 at 17:30, wrote: > The entirety of edx is reserved. > > Intel only defines the lower 16 bits of eax, although ebx is covered by the > featureset ABI, so left unclobbered. > > AMD uses 24 bits in eax, although nothing thus far has ever exposed a non-zero > guest maxphysaddr to HVM

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 08/14] x86/cpuid: Handle leaf 0x80000008 in guest_cpuid()

2017-01-24 Thread Andrew Cooper
The entirety of edx is reserved. Intel only defines the lower 16 bits of eax, although ebx is covered by the featureset ABI, so left unclobbered. AMD uses 24 bits in eax, although nothing thus far has ever exposed a non-zero guest maxphysaddr to HVM guests. Its semantics are not clearly expresse