Re: [Qemu-devel] cpuid problem in upstream qemu with kvm

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:54:49PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
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>> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:18:33PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
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>>>> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
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>>>>> This might help 32 bit guests, but not guests with 64 bit
>>>>> kernel and 32 bit userspace (my case) because all 64 bit
>>>>> CPUs advertise syscall bit in cpuid. Thus 64 bit guests
>>>>> do not seem to even bother checking this bit:
>>>>> AMD + 64 bit -> syscall.
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>>>> Okay, I don't see a great option other than migrating the vendor_id string.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> This won't help with kernels <2.6.32 though.  I guess we can switch
>>> default vendor to Intel, this likely has some other side effects.
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>> That's a kernel bug.  If we think it effects a lot of users, we should  
>> introduce a CAP such that we can detect this in userspace and fail  
>> gracefully.
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> Not emulating feature host CPU does not have is a kernel bug?
> Okay ...
> Yes, almost no one runs 2.6.32 yet.
>   

The kernel has the ability to filter feature bits from cpuid.  We assume 
it's going to filter out things it doesn't support.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori