From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>

Subject: [PATCH] Work around supported cpuid ioctl() brokenness

KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID has been known to fail to return -E2BIG

when it runs out of entries. Detect this by always trying again

with a bigger table if the ioctl() fills the table.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

---

 kvm/libkvm/libkvm-x86.c |    2 ++

 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kvm/libkvm/libkvm-x86.c b/kvm/libkvm/libkvm-x86.c

index a2f6320..4f9539a 100644

--- a/kvm/libkvm/libkvm-x86.c

+++ b/kvm/libkvm/libkvm-x86.c

@@ -575,6 +575,8 @@ static struct kvm_cpuid2 *try_get_cpuid(kvm_context_t kvm, int max)

 	r = ioctl(kvm->fd, KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID, cpuid);

 	if (r == -1)

 		r = -errno;

+	else if (r == 0 && cpuid->nent >= max)

+		r = -E2BIG;

 	if (r < 0) {

 		if (r == -E2BIG) {

 			free(cpuid);

-- 

1.6.0.6