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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: provide pse36 cpuid bit

To: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: provide pse36 cpuid bit
From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:30:39 +0200
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On 10/27/11 16:06, Tim Deegan wrote:
At 14:10 +0200 on 27 Oct (1319724631), Christoph Egger wrote:

Provide pse36 cpuid bit if guest runs in 32bit PAE
or in long mode. Hyper-V refuses to start as
the "cpu does not provide required hw features"
if it does not find the pse36 cpuid bits.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger<Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>

This patch appears to advertise PSE36 support to guests without actually
supporting PSE36.  Or am I missing something?

That's right. The paging format differs only in 32bit legacy mode.
Since Hyper-V is not running in 32bit legacy mode but insists on having
these cpuid bits present it is sufficient to just populate them to the
guest when guest paging mode != 32bit legacy mode.

Christoph


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