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-KVM CPUID bits
-Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, Red Hat Inc, 2010
-=====================================================
-
-A guest running on a kvm host, can check some of its features using
-cpuid. This is not always guaranteed to work, since userspace can
-mask-out some, or even all KVM-related cpuid features before launching
-a guest.
-
-KVM cpuid functions are:
-
-function: KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE (0x40000000)
-returns : eax = 0,
- ebx = 0x4b4d564b,
- ecx = 0x564b4d56,
- edx = 0x4d.
-Note that this value in ebx, ecx and edx corresponds to the string "KVMKVMKVM".
-This function queries the presence of KVM cpuid leafs.
-
-
-function: define KVM_CPUID_FEATURES (0x40000001)
-returns : ebx, ecx, edx = 0
- eax = and OR'ed group of (1 << flag), where each flags is:
-
-
-flag || value || meaning
-=============================================================================
-KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE || 0 || kvmclock available at msrs
- || || 0x11 and 0x12.
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-KVM_FEATURE_NOP_IO_DELAY || 1 || not necessary to perform delays
- || || on PIO operations.
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-KVM_FEATURE_MMU_OP || 2 || deprecated.
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-KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE2 || 3 || kvmclock available at msrs
- || || 0x4b564d00 and 0x4b564d01
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-KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT || 24 || host will warn if no guest-side
- || || per-cpu warps are expected in
- || || kvmclock.
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