These patches add an emulated MSR_PLATFORM_INFO that kvm guests can read as described in section 14.3.2.4 of the Intel SDM. The relevant changes and details are in [2/2]; [1/2] makes vendor_intel generic. There are atleat two known applications that fail to run because of this MSR missing - Sandra and vTune. v3: Some more minor corrections v2: Addressed suggested changes Bandan Das (2): kvm: make vendor_intel a generic function kvm: x86: emulate MSR_PLATFORM_INFO arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 13 ---------- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 20 +++++++++++++++ arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/msr-index.h | 2 ++ arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 19 ++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h | 13 ++++++++++ arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 16 +++--------- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 7 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
