public: add some comments to arch-x86/cpuid.h

Leaf 4 of the Xen-specific CPUID leaves isn't mentioned at all in
include/public/arch-x86/cpuid.h, the comments for leaf 5 don't tell
anything about the sub-leaf semantics.

Add comments to clarify the interface.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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Juergen Gross authored and Jan Beulich committed 2017-09-28 12:06:21 +02:00
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@@ -73,11 +73,27 @@
#define _XEN_CPUID_FEAT1_MMU_PT_UPDATE_PRESERVE_AD 0
#define XEN_CPUID_FEAT1_MMU_PT_UPDATE_PRESERVE_AD (1u<<0)
/*
* Leaf 4 (0x40000x03)
* Sub-leaf 0: EAX: bit 0: emulated tsc
* bit 1: host tsc is known to be reliable
* bit 2: RDTSCP instruction available
* EBX: tsc_mode: 0=default (emulate if necessary), 1=emulate,
* 2=no emulation, 3=no emulation + TSC_AUX support
* ECX: guest tsc frequency in kHz
* EDX: guest tsc incarnation (migration count)
* Sub-leaf 1: EAX: tsc offset low part
* EBX: tsc offset high part
* ECX: multiplicator for tsc->ns conversion
* EDX: shift amount for tsc->ns conversion
* Sub-leaf 2: EAX: host tsc frequency in kHz
*/
/*
* Leaf 5 (0x40000x04)
* HVM-specific features
* EAX: Features
* EBX: vcpu id (iff EAX has XEN_HVM_CPUID_VCPU_ID_PRESENT flag)
* Sub-leaf 0: EAX: Features
* Sub-leaf 0: EBX: vcpu id (iff EAX has XEN_HVM_CPUID_VCPU_ID_PRESENT flag)
*/
#define XEN_HVM_CPUID_APIC_ACCESS_VIRT (1u << 0) /* Virtualized APIC registers */
#define XEN_HVM_CPUID_X2APIC_VIRT (1u << 1) /* Virtualized x2APIC accesses */
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