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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] X86: Add a check to catch Xen emulation of Hyper-V
On 01/31/2013 08:45 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 31.01.13 at 16:53, KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Are there any published standards in terms of how the CPUID space should be
>> populated in the range from 0x40000000 to 0x40010000. Specifically, unless
>
> I recall having seen this range being marked as reserved for
> hypervisor use somewhere, but I don't remember where that was.
>

AFAIK Intel reserves 0x40000000 to 0x4FFFFFFF for hypervisor use.
Typically multivendor CPUID utilities expect "blocks" of 64K but that is
not in any spec that I know of.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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