Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Qemu: Fix eax for cpuid leaf 0x40000000

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On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 09:12:00PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 12/08/2014 20:55, Eduardo Habkost ha scritto:
> > This makes the CPUID data change under the guest's feet during
> > live-migration.
> > 
> > Adding compat code to ensure older machine-types keep the old behavior
> > is necessary, but in this specific case it is mostly harmless because
> > 0x0 is documented as being equivalent to 0x40000001.
> > 
> > (But I don't know how guests are supposed to behave when they see
> > CPUID[KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE_NEXT].EAX==0.)
> 
> The only obvious thing to do would be to treat it as 0x40000101.

I just want to be sure the guests really do that. If we know guests
won't do anything different with the CPUID change, I won't mind having
no compat code for this.

-- 
Eduardo
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