GETSEC[CAPABILITIES] — Report the SMX Capabilities

Opcode	Instruction	Description
NP 0F 37 (EAX = 0)	GETSEC[CAPABILITIES]	Report the SMX capabilities. The capabilities index is input in EBX with the result returned in EAX.

Description ¶

The GETSEC[CAPABILITIES] function returns a bit vector of supported GETSEC leaf functions. The CAPABILITIES leaf of GETSEC is selected with EAX set to 0 at entry. EBX is used as the selector for returning the bit vector field in EAX. GETSEC[CAPABILITIES] may be executed at all privilege levels, but the CR4.SMXE bit must be set or an undefined opcode exception (#UD) is returned.

With EBX = 0 upon execution of GETSEC[CAPABILITIES], EAX returns the a bit vector representing status on the presence of a Intel^® TXT-capable chipset and the first 30 available GETSEC leaf functions. The format of the returned bit vector is provided in Table 7-3.

If bit 0 is set to 1, then an Intel^® TXT-capable chipset has been sampled present by the processor. If bits in the range of 1-30 are set, then the corresponding GETSEC leaf function is available. If the bit value at a given bit index is 0, then the GETSEC leaf function corresponding to that index is unsupported and attempted execution results in a #UD.

Bit 31 of EAX indicates if further leaf indexes are supported. If the Extended Leafs bit 31 is set, then additional leaf functions are accessed by repeating GETSEC[CAPABILITIES] with EBX incremented by one. When the most significant bit of EAX is not set, then additional GETSEC leaf functions are not supported; indexing EBX to a higher value results in EAX returning zero.

Field	Bit position	Description
Chipset Present	0	Intel® TXT-capable chipset is present.
Undefined	1	Reserved
ENTERACCS	2	GETSEC[ENTERACCS] is available.
EXITAC	3	GETSEC[EXITAC] is available.
SENTER	4	GETSEC[SENTER] is available.
SEXIT	5	GETSEC[SEXIT] is available.
PARAMETERS	6	GETSEC[PARAMETERS] is available.
SMCTRL	7	GETSEC[SMCTRL] is available.
WAKEUP	8	GETSEC[WAKEUP] is available.
Undefined	30:9	Reserved
Extended Leafs	31	Reserved for extended information reporting of GETSEC capabilities.

Table 7-3. GETSEC Capability Result Encoding (EBX = 0)

Operation ¶

IF (CR4.SMXE=0)
    THEN #UD;
ELSIF (in VMX non-root operation)
    THEN VM Exit (reason=”GETSEC instruction”);
IF (EBX=0) THEN
        BitVector := 0;
        IF (TXT chipset present)
            BitVector[Chipset present] := 1;
        IF (ENTERACCS Available)
            THEN BitVector[ENTERACCS] := 1;
        IF (EXITAC Available)
            THEN BitVector[EXITAC] := 1;
        IF (SENTER Available)
            THEN BitVector[SENTER] := 1;
        IF (SEXIT Available)
            THEN BitVector[SEXIT] := 1;
        IF (PARAMETERS Available)
            THEN BitVector[PARAMETERS] := 1;
        IF (SMCTRL Available)
            THEN BitVector[SMCTRL] := 1;
        IF (WAKEUP Available)
            THEN BitVector[WAKEUP] := 1;
        EAX := BitVector;
ELSE
    EAX := 0;
END;;

Flags Affected ¶

None.

Use of Prefixes ¶

LOCK Causes #UD.

REP* Cause #UD (includes REPNE/REPNZ and REP/REPE/REPZ).

Operand size Causes #UD.

NP 66/F2/F3 prefixes are not allowed.

Segmentoverrides Ignored.

Address size Ignored.

REX Ignored.

Protected Mode Exceptions ¶

#UD	If CR4.SMXE = 0.

Real-Address Mode Exceptions ¶

#UD	If CR4.SMXE = 0.

Virtual-8086 Mode Exceptions ¶

#UD	If CR4.SMXE = 0.

Compatibility Mode Exceptions ¶

#UD	If CR4.SMXE = 0.

64-Bit Mode Exceptions ¶

#UD	If CR4.SMXE = 0.

VM-exit Condition ¶

Reason (GETSEC) If in VMX non-root operation.