[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] hvm: Fix APIC-ID cpuid intercept

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/2/08 22:44, "Andre Przywara" <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> the HVM CPUID intercept does not mask out the local APIC ID bits in
> CPUID Fn0000_0001, bits 24-31 in EBX. This results in inconsistent
> values of subsequent calls to cpuid on the same VCPU (delivering the
> value of the physical CPU), depending on the current scheduling. This
> for instance confuses Linux' NUMA code.
> The attached patch fixes this by replacing the physical APIC ID with the
> VCPU number, both in the VMX and SVM branches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
> 
> I hope this does not trigger any side effects...

I'm sure it can't do worse than the current broken behaviour!

 Thanks,
 Keir



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