[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 4/5] Viridian: populate CPUID leaf 6

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

Properly reporting hardware features we use can only help Windows in
making decisions towards its own performance tuning.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/viridian.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/viridian.c
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@
 #define CPUID4A_MSR_BASED_APIC  (1 << 3)
 #define CPUID4A_RELAX_TIMER_INT (1 << 5)
 
+/* Viridian CPUID 4000006, Implementation HW features detected and in use. */
+#define CPUID6A_APIC_OVERLAY    (1 << 0)
+#define CPUID6A_MSR_BITMAPS     (1 << 1)
+#define CPUID6A_NESTED_PAGING   (1 << 3)
+
 int cpuid_viridian_leaves(unsigned int leaf, unsigned int *eax,
                           unsigned int *ebx, unsigned int *ecx,
                           unsigned int *edx)
@@ -92,6 +97,15 @@ int cpuid_viridian_leaves(unsigned int l
             *eax |= CPUID4A_MSR_BASED_APIC;
         *ebx = 2047; /* long spin count */
         break;
+    case 6:
+        /* Detected and in use hardware features. */
+        if ( cpu_has_vmx_virtualize_apic_accesses )
+            *eax |= CPUID6A_APIC_OVERLAY;
+        if ( cpu_has_vmx_msr_bitmap || (read_efer() & EFER_SVME) )
+            *eax |= CPUID6A_MSR_BITMAPS;
+        if ( hap_enabled(d) )
+            *eax |= CPUID6A_NESTED_PAGING;
+        break;
     }
 
     return 1;

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