Re: CURRENT: FreeBSD not reporting AES-NI on Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 v3

From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 18:07:33 +0200
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 04:58:40PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 19 Mar 2017, at 13:36, Rozhuk Ivan <rozhuk.im_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:53:24 +0100
> > "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann_at_walstatt.org> wrote:
> > 
> >>> Other OS detect AES-NI on this server?
> >> 
> >> I havn't ried so far, the box is in heavy use. I'd like to check with
> >> some live USB drive versions and report later.
> >> 
> > 
> > You can write or find some program that read and decode CPUID and check
> > AES-NI support without reboot.
> 
> The kernel already does this at boot time, and show the results, e.g.:
> 
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU _at_ 3.40GHz (3391.68-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin="GenuineIntel"  Id=0x306a9  Family=0x6  Model=0x3a  Stepping=9
>   Features=0xfa3fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,DTS,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS>
>   Features2=0xffba2203<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,SSSE3,CX16,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,HV>
>   AMD Features=0x28100000<NX,RDTSCP,LM>
>   AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>   Structured Extended Features=0x202<TSCADJ,ERMS>
>   TSC: P-state invariant
> 
> Unfortunately the kernel does not expose this information via any
> sysctl, so some time after booting it may have "scrolled away" in
> dmesg.
It is quite pointless to expose the information through a sysctl, because
it is non-privileged and is available to usermode via execution of the
CPUID instruction, which is utilized by utilities listed below.

Also, look at cpucontrol -i.

> 
> In that case, you can use either the misc/cpuid or the sysutils/cpuid
> ports to show this information, and even quite a lot more.
Or better, sysutils/x86info.
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