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IDc34ea31416a9631b0a552afa08b99ec29cf44272

Added by Eduardo Habkost about 12 years ago

add SandyBridge CPU model

This patches add the definition of a SandyBridge CPU model.

Summary of differences:

Flags present on actual hardware, but not on the added model definition:

- pbe, tm, ht, ss, acpi, vme, xTPR, tm2, eist, smx: host-specific
features, not exposed to guest.
- ds, ds-cpl, dtes64, pdcm: emulation not supported by KVM (although it
may be added in the future if implementing PMU virtualization)
- pcid, vmx, monitor: not emulated by Qemu/KVM right now.
- osxsave: set by the guest OS, not by Qemu.

Flags added, that were not present on Westmere model:

- xsave: already supported by Qemu
- avx, pclmulqdq: all new state the new instructions could use is
handled by xsave state loading/saving code.
- tsc-deadline, x2apic, rdtscp: already supported by Qemu/KVM.

Below there's a comparison of the features on the current Westmere CPU
model, and the SandyBridge CPU model.

- The "full" line contains the flags found on actual hardware.
- The "missing" line shows the flags that are present on actual
hardware, but not on the added SandyBridge model.
- The "new" line shows the flags that were not on the Westmere model,
but are on SandyBridge.

feature_edx:
Westmere: sse2 sse fxsr mmx clflush pse36 pat cmov mca pge mtrr sep apic cx8 mce pae msr tsc pse de fpu
full: pbe tm ht ss sse2 sse fxsr mmx ds acpi clflush pse36 pat cmov mca pge mtrr sep apic cx8 mce pge msr tsc pse de vme fpu
SandyBridge: sse2 sse fxsr mmx clflush pse36 pat cmov mca pge mtrr sep apic cx8 mce pae msr tsc pse de fpu
missing: pbe tm ht ss ds acpi vme

feature_ecx:
Westmere: aes popcnt sse4.2 sse4.1 cx16 ssse3 sse3
full: avx osxsave xsave aes tsc-deadline popcnt x2apic sse4.2 sse4.1 pcid pdcm xTPR cx16 ssse3 tm2 eist smx vmx ds-cpl monitor dtes64 pclmulqdq sse3
SandyBridge: avx xsave aes tsc-deadline popcnt x2apic sse4.2 sse4.1 cx16 ssse3 pclmulqdq sse3
missing: osxsave pcid pdcm xTPR tm2 eist smx vmx ds-cpl monitor dtes64
new: avx xsave tsc-deadline x2apic pclmulqdq

extfeature_edx:
Westmere: i64 nx syscall
full: i64 rdtscp nx syscall
SandyBridge: i64 rdtscp nx syscall
new: rdtscp

extfeature_ecx:
Westmere: lahf_lm
full: lahf_lm
SandyBridge: lahf_lm

Cc: "Dugger, Donald D" <>
Cc: "Zhang, Xiantao" <>
Acked-by: Xiantao Zhang <>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>

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