Re: [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy-TSDbQ3PG+2Y@public.gmane.org>]

Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> Today, 3 CPUID leaves starting from 0x4000_0000 are defined in a generic
> fashion (hypervisor detection, version, and hypercall page), and those
> are the ones used by Xen today. We should extend those leaves (e.g.
> starting from 0x4000_0003) for the vmm-independent features as well.
>
> If Xen needs additional Xen-specific features, we need to allocate some
> leaves for those (e.g. 0x4000_1000)

But the signature is "XenVMMXenVMM", which isn't very generic.  If we're
presenting a generic interface, it needs to have a generic signature,
otherwise guests will need to have a list of all hypervisor signatures
supporting their interface.  Since 0x40000000 has already been
established as the base leaf of the hypervisor-specific interfaces, the
generic interface will have to be elsewhere.

    J

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