Re: [PATCH] kvm: fix cpuid eax

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On 05/01/2012 03:53 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 04/30/2012 11:37 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 04/30/2012 09:39 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >> cpuid eax should return the max leaf so that
> >> guests can find out the valid range.
> >> This matches Xen et al.
> >
> > What KVM does here predates Xen and Hyper-V.
> >
> > This is an ABI breaker.
>
> First, I don't think we ever documented eax, so nothing can rely on it.
>

Actually, we did document it.

However, I think it's safe to change.  The documentation in this case
should say "reserved, returns zero in this implementation", rather than 0.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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