[Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs

["Wei, Gang" <gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx>]

x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs

If the CPUID limit bit in MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE is set, clear it to make all 
CPUID information available. This is required for some features to work, such 
as MWAIT in cpuidle, get cpu topology, XSAVE, etc.

Signed-off-by: Wei Gang <gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx>

diff -r 0efb8a38bbf6 xen/arch/x86/cpu/intel.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/intel.c  Fri Jul 23 11:00:37 2010 +0800
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/intel.c  Fri Jul 23 16:27:42 2010 +0800
@@ -90,6 +90,20 @@ void __devinit early_intel_workaround(st
        /* Netburst reports 64 bytes clflush size, but does IO in 128 bytes */
        if (c->x86 == 15 && c->x86_cache_alignment == 64)
                c->x86_cache_alignment = 128;
+
+       /* Unmask CPUID levels if masked: */
+       if (c->x86 > 6 || (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model >= 0xd)) {
+               u64 misc_enable;
+
+               rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE, misc_enable);
+
+               if (misc_enable & MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_LIMIT_CPUID) {
+                       misc_enable &= ~MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_LIMIT_CPUID;
+                       wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE, misc_enable);
+                       c->cpuid_level = cpuid_eax(0);
+                       printk("revised cpuid_level = %d\n", c->cpuid_level);
+               }
+       }
 }
 
 /*
diff -r 0efb8a38bbf6 xen/include/asm-x86/msr-index.h
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/msr-index.h   Fri Jul 23 11:00:37 2010 +0800
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/msr-index.h   Fri Jul 23 15:58:40 2010 +0800
@@ -324,6 +324,7 @@
 #define MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_BTS_UNAVAIL  (1<<11)
 #define MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_PEBS_UNAVAIL (1<<12)
 #define MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_MONITOR_ENABLE (1<<18)
+#define MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_LIMIT_CPUID  (1<<22)
 #define MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_XTPR_DISABLE (1<<23)
 
 /* Intel Model 6 */

Attachment: wr_limit_cpuid.patch
Description: wr_limit_cpuid.patch

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