History log of /linux-master/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# cc8f3b4d 15-Jul-2019 Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>

x86/paravirt: Remove const mark from x86_hyper_xen_hvm variable

.. as "nopv" support needs it to be changeable at boot up stage.

Checkpatch reports warning, so move variable declarations from
hypervisor.c to hypervisor.h

Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


# 30978346 11-Jul-2019 Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>

x86: Add "nopv" parameter to disable PV extensions

In virtualization environment, PV extensions (drivers, interrupts,
timers, etc) are enabled in the majority of use cases which is the
best option.

However, in some cases (kexec not fully working, benchmarking)
we want to disable PV extensions. We have "xen_nopv" for that purpose
but only for XEN. For a consistent admin experience a common command
line parameter "nopv" set across all PV guest implementations is a
better choice.

There are guest types which just won't work without PV extensions,
like Xen PV, Xen PVH and jailhouse. add a "ignore_nopv" member to
struct hypervisor_x86 set to true for those guest types and call
the detect functions only if nopv is false or ignore_nopv is true.

Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


# ec7972c9 29-Apr-2019 Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>

x86: Add support for Linux guests on an ACRN hypervisor

ACRN is an open-source hypervisor maintained by The Linux Foundation. It
is built for embedded IOT with small footprint and real-time features.
Add ACRN guest support so that it allows Linux to be booted under the
ACRN hypervisor. This adds only the barebones implementation.

[ bp: Massage commit message and help text. ]

Co-developed-by: Jason Chen CJ <jason.cj.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Chen CJ <jason.cj.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1559108037-18813-3-git-send-email-yakui.zhao@intel.com


# 4a362601 27-Nov-2017 Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>

x86/jailhouse: Add infrastructure for running in non-root cell

The Jailhouse hypervisor is able to statically partition a multicore
system into multiple so-called cells. Linux is used as boot loader and
continues to run in the root cell after Jailhouse is enabled. Linux can
also run in non-root cells.

Jailhouse does not emulate usual x86 devices. It also provides no
complex ACPI but basic platform information that the boot loader
forwards via setup data. This adds the infrastructure to detect when
running in a non-root cell so that the platform can be configured as
required in succeeding steps.

Support is limited to x86-64 so far, primarily because no boot loader
stub exists for i386 and, thus, we wouldn't be able to test the 32-bit
path.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: jailhouse-dev@googlegroups.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7f823d077b38b1a70c526b40b403f85688c137d3.1511770314.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com


# 79cc7415 04-Dec-2017 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

x86/paravirt: Provide a way to check for hypervisors

There is no generic way to test whether a kernel is running on a specific
hypervisor. But that's required to prevent the upcoming user address space
separation feature in certain guest modes.

Make the hypervisor type enum unconditionally available and provide a
helper function which allows to test for a specific type.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150606.912938129@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 03b2a320 09-Nov-2017 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

x86/virt: Add enum for hypervisors to replace x86_hyper

The x86_hyper pointer is only used for checking whether a virtual
device is supporting the hypervisor the system is running on.

Use an enum for that purpose instead and drop the x86_hyper pointer.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Cc: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: haiyangz@microsoft.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kys@microsoft.com
Cc: linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: moltmann@vmware.com
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: pv-drivers@vmware.com
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com
Cc: sthemmin@microsoft.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109132739.23465-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# f72e38e8 09-Nov-2017 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

x86/virt, x86/platform: Merge 'struct x86_hyper' into 'struct x86_platform' and 'struct x86_init'

Instead of x86_hyper being either NULL on bare metal or a pointer to a
struct hypervisor_x86 in case of the kernel running as a guest merge
the struct into x86_platform and x86_init.

This will remove the need for wrappers making it hard to find out what
is being called. With dummy functions added for all callbacks testing
for a NULL function pointer can be removed, too.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Cc: haiyangz@microsoft.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kys@microsoft.com
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: sthemmin@microsoft.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109132739.23465-2-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# c138d811 27-Jul-2017 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

x86: provide an init_mem_mapping hypervisor hook

Provide a hook in hypervisor_x86 called after setting up initial
memory mapping.

This is needed e.g. by Xen HVM guests to map the hypervisor shared
info page.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


# 65f9d654 13-Apr-2017 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

x86/cpu: remove hypervisor specific set_cpu_features

There is no user of x86_hyper->set_cpu_features() any more. Remove it.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


# 0991d22d 14-Mar-2017 Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>

x86/xen: separate PV and HVM hypervisors

As a preparation to splitting the code we need to untangle it:

x86_hyper_xen -> x86_hyper_xen_hvm and x86_hyper_xen_pv
xen_platform() -> xen_platform_hvm() and xen_platform_pv()
xen_cpu_up_prepare() -> xen_cpu_up_prepare_pv() and xen_cpu_up_prepare_hvm()
xen_cpu_dead() -> xen_cpu_dead_pv() and xen_cpu_dead_pv_hvm()

Add two parameters to xen_cpuhp_setup() to pass proper cpu_up_prepare and
cpu_dead hooks. xen_set_cpu_features() is now PV-only so the redundant
xen_pv_domain() check can be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


# 47ae4b05 29-Aug-2016 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

virt, sched: Add generic vCPU pinning support

Add generic virtualization support for pinning the current vCPU to a
specified physical CPU. As this operation isn't performance critical
(a very limited set of operations like BIOS calls and SMIs is expected
to need this) just add a hypervisor specific indirection.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: chrisw@sous-sol.org
Cc: david.vrabel@citrix.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: jdelvare@suse.com
Cc: jeremy@goop.org
Cc: linux@roeck-us.net
Cc: pali.rohar@gmail.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472453327-19050-3-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# a71dbdaa 04-May-2015 Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>

hypervisor/x86/xen: Unset X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS on Xen PV guests

Commit 61f01dd941ba ("x86_64, asm: Work around AMD SYSRET SS descriptor
attribute issue") makes AMD processors set SS to __KERNEL_DS in
__switch_to() to deal with cases when SS is NULL.

This breaks Xen PV guests who do not want to load SS with__KERNEL_DS.

Since the problem that the commit is trying to address would have to be
fixed in the hypervisor (if it in fact exists under Xen) there is no
reason to set X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS flag for PV VPCUs here.

This can be easily achieved by adding x86_hyper_xen_hvm.set_cpu_features
op which will clear this flag. (And since this structure is no longer
HVM-specific we should do some renaming).

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>


# 9df56f19 25-Jul-2013 Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

x86: Correctly detect hypervisor

We try to handle the hypervisor compatibility mode by detecting hypervisor
through a specific order. This is not robust, since hypervisors may implement
each others features.

This patch tries to handle this situation by always choosing the last one in the
CPUID leaves. This is done by letting .detect() return a priority instead of
true/false and just re-using the CPUID leaf where the signature were found as
the priority (or 1 if it was found by DMI). Then we can just pick hypervisor who
has the highest priority. Other sophisticated detection method could also be
implemented on top.

Suggested by H. Peter Anvin and Paolo Bonzini.

Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Doug Covelli <dcovelli@vmware.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1374742475-2485-4-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>


# 6276a074 04-Mar-2013 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

x86: Make Linux guest support optional

Put all config options needed to run Linux as a guest behind a
CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST menu so that they don't get built-in by default
but be selectable by the user. Also, make all units which depend on
x86_hyper, depend on this new symbol so that compilation doesn't fail
when CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST is disabled but those units assume its
presence.

Sort options in the new HYPERVISOR_GUEST menu, adapt config text and
drop redundant select.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362428421-9244-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>


# 4cca6ea0 17-Jan-2013 Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>

x86/apic: Allow x2apic without IR on VMware platform

This patch updates x2apic initializaition code to allow x2apic
on VMware platform even without interrupt remapping support.
The hypervisor_x2apic_available hook was added in x2apic
initialization code and used by KVM and XEN, before this.
I have also cleaned up that code to export this hook through the
hypervisor_x86 structure.

Compile tested for KVM and XEN configs, this patch doesn't have
any functional effect on those two platforms.

On VMware platform, verified that x2apic is used in physical
mode on products that support this.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Covelli <dcovelli@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358466282.423.60.camel@akataria-dtop.eng.vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# fc73373b 06-Jul-2012 Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>

KVM: Add x86_hyper_kvm to complete detect_hypervisor_platform check

While debugging I noticed that unlike all the other hypervisor code in the
kernel, kvm does not have an entry for x86_hyper which is used in
detect_hypervisor_platform() which results in a nice printk in the
syslog. This is only really a stub function but it
does make kvm more consistent with the other hypervisors.


Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tostatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>


# d9b8ca84 20-Dec-2010 Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>

xen: HVM X2APIC support

This patch is similiar to Gleb Natapov's patch for KVM, which enable the
hypervisor to emulate x2apic feature for the guest. By this way, the emulation
of lapic would be simpler with x2apic interface(MSR), and faster.

[v2: Re-organized 'xen_hvm_need_lapic' per Ian Campbell suggestion]

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>


# 2904ed8d 20-Dec-2010 Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>

apic: Move hypervisor detection of x2apic to hypervisor.h

Then we can reuse it for Xen later.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>


# bee6ab53 13-May-2010 Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>

x86: early PV on HVM features initialization.

Initialize basic pv on hvm features adding a new Xen HVM specific
hypervisor_x86 structure.

Don't try to initialize xen-kbdfront and xen-fbfront when running on HVM
because the backends are not available.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>


# e08cae41 07-May-2010 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

x86: Clean up the hypervisor layer

Clean up the hypervisor layer and the hypervisor drivers, using an ops
structure instead of an enumeration with if statements.

The identity of the hypervisor, if needed, can be tested by testing
the pointer value in x86_hyper.

The MS-HyperV private state is moved into a normal global variable
(it's per-system state, not per-CPU state). Being a normal bss
variable, it will be left at all zero on non-HyperV platforms, and so
can generally be tested for HyperV-specific features without
additional qualification.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BE49778.6060800@zytor.com>


# 2d826404 20-Aug-2009 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_ops

TSC calibration is modified by the vmware hypervisor and paravirt by
separate means. Moorestown wants to add its own calibration routine as
well. So make calibrate_tsc a proper x86_init_ops function and
override it by paravirt or by the early setup of the vmware
hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 88b094fb 27-Oct-2008 Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>

x86: Hypervisor detection and get tsc_freq from hypervisor

Impact: Changes timebase calibration on Vmware.

v3->v2 : Abstract the hypervisor detection and feature (tsc_freq) request
behind a hypervisor.c file
v2->v1 : Add a x86_hyper_vendor field to the cpuinfo_x86 structure.
This avoids multiple calls to the hypervisor detection function.

This patch adds function to detect if we are running under VMware.
The current way to check if we are on VMware is following,
# check if "hypervisor present bit" is set, if so read the 0x40000000
cpuid leaf and check for "VMwareVMware" signature.
# if the above fails, check the DMI vendors name for "VMware" string
if we find one we query the VMware hypervisor port to check if we are
under VMware.

The DMI + "VMware hypervisor port check" is needed for older VMware products,
which don't implement the hypervisor signature cpuid leaf.
Also note that since we are checking for the DMI signature the hypervisor
port should never be accessed on native hardware.

This patch also adds a hypervisor_get_tsc_freq function, instead of
calibrating the frequency which can be error prone in virtualized
environment, we ask the hypervisor for it. We get the frequency from
the hypervisor by accessing the hypervisor port if we are running on VMware.
Other hypervisors too can add code to the generic routine to get frequency on
their platform.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>