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CPUID Enumerator and Decoder

Purpose
Sample Output
Specification
Implementation and Build Details
Authenticity and Integrity

Purpose

The command line alias console program CPUPRINT.EXE for Microsoft^® Windows^® NT decodes and prints the information gathered from the processor’s CPUID and XGETBV instructions.

CPUPRINT.EXE enumerates the processor capabilities alias features IBRS, STIBP, IBPB, L1D_FLUSH and SSBD as well as the presence of the IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES and IA32_FLUSH_CMD model specific registers, introduced by AMD and Intel with firmware alias microcode updates to fix the vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5715 alias Branch Target Injection, CVE-2017-5753 alias Bounds Check Bypass, CVE-2017-5754 alias Rogue Data Cache Load, CVE-2018-3639 alias Speculative Store Bypass, CVE-2018-3640 alias Rogue System Register Read, CVE-2018-3693 alias Bounds Check Bypass Store, and CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620 plus CVE-2018-3646 alias L1 Termination Fault, better known by their nicknames Meltdown, Spectre, Spectre-NG and Foreshadow.
It also enumerates the processor capabilities alias features PCID, introduced 2010 in first generation Intel Core processors with Westmere microarchitecture, and INVPCID, introduced 2013 in fourth generation Intel Core processors with Haswell microarchitecture, both available only in long mode, i.e. to 64-bit operating systems, which are necessary to reduce the performance impact of the fix for CVE-2017-5754 alias Meltdown.

Note: when started in its own console window, for example per double-click, CPUPRINT.EXE waits for a keypress before it exits and its console window closes; it beeps once and flashes the title bar of its console window to indicate this wait state.

Sample Output

CPUPRINT.EEE shows typical output for an Intel^® Atom^™ processor.

CPUPRINT.LOG and CPUPRINT.TXT show typical outputs for Intel^® Core^™ processors.

CPUPRINT.AMD shows typical output for an AMD^® Athlon^™ processor.

CPUPRINT.ZEN shows the output for an AMD^® Ryzen^™7 2700X processor.
CPUPRINT.EPYC shows the output for an AMD^® EPYC^™ 7262 processor.
CPUPRINT.ZEN2 shows the output for an AMD^® Ryzen^™5 3600 processor.
CPUPRINT.EXC shows the output for an AMD^® A4-9125 Radeon^™ R3 processor with microcode update applied.

CPUPRINT.CFL shows the output for an Intel^® Core^™ i5-8400 processor with microcode update applied.
CPUPRINT.NEW shows the output for an Intel^® Core^™ i7-7500U processor with microcode update applied.
CPUPRINT.KBL shows the output for an Intel^® Core^™ i5-7400U processor with microcode update applied;
CPUPRINT.HVP shows the output for the same processor running under Microsoft Hyper-V.

Specification

CPUPRINT.EXE supports multiple specifications of (real and virtualised) x86 and x64 processors from several vendors:

AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 2: System Programming: Revision 3.37, March 8, 2021
AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 3: General Purpose and System Instructions: Revision 3.32, March 8, 2021
AMD64 Technology Indirect Branch Control Extension: Revision 4.10.18, April 2018
AMD64 Speculative Store Bypass Disable: Revision 5.21.18, May 2018
AMD Geode^™ LX Processors Data Book: February 2009

Intel^® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manuals: Revision 074, April 2, 2021
Intel^® Architecture Instruction Set Extensions and Future Features Programming Reference
Intel^® Architecture Instruction Set Extensions and Future Features Programming Reference: Revision 043, February 16, 2021
Intel^® Software ISA Extensions: October 2017
Speculative Execution Side Channel Mitigations: Revision 2.0, May 2018
Intel^® Architecture Memory Encryption Technologies Specification: Revision 1.1, December 2017
Control-flow Enforcement Technology Preview: Revision 3.0, May 2019
Intel^® Itanium^® Architecture Software Developer’s Manual: Revision 2.3, May 2010

Microsoft Hypervisor Top Level Functional Specification: Version 6.0b, February 2020 (which is but incomplete)

VIA C7-M Processor Datasheet: Revision 2.50, May 2008
VIA Eden Processor Datasheet: Revision 1.70, January 2006
VIA PadLock Programming Guide: August 2005
VIA Eden ESP Processor Datasheet: Revision 1.79, October 2004
VIA C3 Nehemiah Processor Datasheet: Revision 1.13, September 2004
VIA Antaur Processor Datasheet: July 2003

Implementation and Build Details

CPUPRINT.EXE is a pure Win32 binary executable, written from scratch in ANSI C, built with the ~~Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2~~ Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler 2010 SP1 from update 2519277, but without the MSVCRT libraries, for use on Windows XP and newer versions of Windows NT as well as Windows PE.

CPUPRINT.EXE is available for the I386 alias x86 and AMD64 alias x64 processor architectures of Windows NT.
Note: on the IA64 processor architecture, the CPUID instruction is supported in the emulated I386 alias x86 execution environment only!

Note: CPUPRINT.EXE is neither based on other abandoned or outdated tools like cpuid, cpuid or cpuid nor related to any of them!

Authenticity and Integrity

CPUPRINT.EXE is digitally signed using a (self-issued) X.509 leaf certificate and time stamped.

Download and install the (self-signed) X.509 root certificate to validate and verify the digital certificate and the signature.

Contact

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