On 07/19/2013 02:00 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 19/07/2013 22:59, H. Peter Anvin ha scritto: >>>>>> - cpuid(KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx); >>>>>> - memcpy(signature + 0, &ebx, 4); >>>>>> - memcpy(signature + 4, &ecx, 4); >>>>>> - memcpy(signature + 8, &edx, 4); >>>>>> - signature[12] = 0; >>>>>> - >>>>>> - if (strcmp(signature, "KVMKVMKVM") == 0) >>>>>> + if (kvm_para_available_function(KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE) || >>>>>> + kvm_para_available_function(KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE_NEXT)) >>>>>> return true; >>>>>> } >>>> >>>> Nice catch. Just one small thing, you should loop until 0x40010000, as >>>> done in arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h, in case one day a third >>>> hypervisor implements three extensions (Hyper-V, KVM and its own set). >>>> >> Any way we can centralize this stuff? > > I guess a function cpuid_hypervisor_base("KVMKVMKVM") that does the scan? > Something like that. -hpa -- 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