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[Xen-devel] fewer CPUID instructions is monitored/emulated in xen 4.0.1

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Subject: [Xen-devel] fewer CPUID instructions is monitored/emulated in xen 4.0.1 than in xen 3.1.0?
From: "K.C. Lee" <kcl.joseph@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:42:47 +0800
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Hi,

In the function vmx_do_cpuid() of xen 4.0.1, it calls vmx_cpuid_intercept() which
deal with the case where eax is 0x80000001 only,
much less than the cases in vmx_do_cpuid() of xen 3.1.0.

Does that mean fewer instructions is monitored in xen 4.0.1? Why?

Thank you.

Sincerely,

K.C.

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