While not as relevant after c/s 21894, is still seems safer to check the CPUID level here, just like Linux does. The is particularly relevant for the 4.0 tree (which doesn't have said c/s), but also possibly for nested environments where writing MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE may not actually take effect (Xen itself ignores such writes). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- 2010-09-20.orig/xen/arch/x86/i387.c 2009-10-01 10:53:02.000000000 +0200 +++ 2010-09-20/xen/arch/x86/i387.c 2010-09-24 13:30:25.000000000 +0200 @@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ void restore_fpu(struct vcpu *v) } } +#define XSTATE_CPUID 0xd + /* * Maximum size (in byte) of the XSAVE/XRSTOR save area required by all * the supported and enabled features on the processor, including the @@ -148,7 +150,12 @@ void xsave_init(void) int cpu = smp_processor_id(); u32 min_size; - cpuid_count(0xd, 0, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx); + if ( boot_cpu_data.cpuid_level < XSTATE_CPUID ) { + printk(XENLOG_ERR "XSTATE_CPUID missing\n"); + return; + } + + cpuid_count(XSTATE_CPUID, 0, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx); printk("%s: cpu%d: cntxt_max_size: 0x%x and states: %08x:%08x\n", __func__, cpu, ecx, edx, eax); @@ -169,7 +176,7 @@ void xsave_init(void) */ set_in_cr4(X86_CR4_OSXSAVE); set_xcr0(eax & XCNTXT_MASK); - cpuid_count(0xd, 0, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx); + cpuid_count(XSTATE_CPUID, 0, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx); clear_in_cr4(X86_CR4_OSXSAVE); if ( cpu == 0 )