>>> On 02.04.19 at 08:46, <pu...@hygon.cn> wrote:
> On 2019/4/1 16:41, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 30.03.19 at 11:42, <pu...@hygon.cn> wrote:
>>> There is no MSR_INTEL_PLATFORM_INFO for AMD and Hygon families. So directly
>>> return false in the function probe_cpuid_faulting() if !cpu_has_hypervisor.
>> 
>> I think it would have been nice if you had mentioned the real
>> reason why you want to bypass the MSR accesses. This way it
>> sounds as if the change was only cosmetic, and hence could be
>> left out.
> 
> Okay, how about the new description:
> There is no MSR_INTEL_PLATFORM_INFO for AMD and Hygon families. Read
> this MSR will stop the Xen initialization process

"... for some early Hygon steppings"(?). I'm unaware of AMD CPUs
having this issue - are you telling us otherwise?

Jan

> or produce GPF(0).
> So directly return false in the function probe_cpuid_faulting() if
> !cpu_has_hypervisor.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Pu Wen





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