From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suravee Suthikulanit Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CPUID bit mask for Performance Counter Extension Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:49:34 -0600 Message-ID: <5136767E.5070709@amd.com> References: <1362170428-2851-1-git-send-email-suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> <5134806D02000078000C2BB2@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5134806D02000078000C2BB2@nat28.tlf.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich Cc: Jacob Shin , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 3/4/2013 4:07 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 01.03.13 at 21:40, wrote: >> From: Jacob Shin > So are you saying that this will work for guests without _any_ > respective virtualization code in the hypervisor? Yes. The MSRs are already virtualized. This patch is just adding the mask in the CPUID to allow feature detection in the initialization code. > If so, it would be > nice if there was text in the (currently empty) patch description > making this explicit. Sorry. I am resending the patch with the commit log. Suravee > > Jan > >> Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin >> Submitted-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit >> --- >> tools/libxc/xc_cpufeature.h | 1 + >> tools/libxc/xc_cpuid_x86.c | 1 + >> tools/libxl/libxl_cpuid.c | 1 + >> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_cpufeature.h b/tools/libxc/xc_cpufeature.h >> index c464e3a..c804af3 100644 >> --- a/tools/libxc/xc_cpufeature.h >> +++ b/tools/libxc/xc_cpufeature.h >> @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ >> #define X86_FEATURE_NODEID_MSR 19 /* NodeId MSR */ >> #define X86_FEATURE_TBM 21 /* trailing bit manipulations */ >> #define X86_FEATURE_TOPOEXT 22 /* topology extensions CPUID leafs */ >> +#define X86_FEATURE_PERFCTR_CORE 23 /* core performance counter extensions >> */ >> >> /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:0 (ebx) */ >> #define X86_FEATURE_FSGSBASE 0 /* {RD,WR}{FS,GS}BASE instructions */ >> diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_cpuid_x86.c b/tools/libxc/xc_cpuid_x86.c >> index 17efc0f..c269468 100644 >> --- a/tools/libxc/xc_cpuid_x86.c >> +++ b/tools/libxc/xc_cpuid_x86.c >> @@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ static void amd_xc_cpuid_policy( >> bitmaskof(X86_FEATURE_XOP) | >> bitmaskof(X86_FEATURE_FMA4) | >> bitmaskof(X86_FEATURE_TBM) | >> + bitmaskof(X86_FEATURE_PERFCTR_CORE) | >> bitmaskof(X86_FEATURE_LWP)); >> regs[3] &= (0x0183f3ff | /* features shared with 0x00000001:EDX */ >> (is_pae ? bitmaskof(X86_FEATURE_NX) : 0) | >> diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_cpuid.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_cpuid.c >> index d17fdd6..f3f1265 100644 >> --- a/tools/libxl/libxl_cpuid.c >> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_cpuid.c >> @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ int libxl_cpuid_parse_config(libxl_cpuid_policy_list >> *cpuid, const char* str) >> {"vme", 0x00000001, NA, CPUID_REG_EDX, 1, 1}, >> {"fpu", 0x00000001, NA, CPUID_REG_EDX, 0, 1}, >> {"topoext", 0x80000001, NA, CPUID_REG_ECX, 22, 1}, >> + {"perfctr_core", 0x80000001, NA, CPUID_REG_ECX, 23, 1}, >> {"tbm", 0x80000001, NA, CPUID_REG_ECX, 21, 1}, >> {"nodeid", 0x80000001, NA, CPUID_REG_ECX, 19, 1}, >> {"fma4", 0x80000001, NA, CPUID_REG_ECX, 16, 1}, >> -- >> 1.7.10.4 > > >