History log of /linux-master/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
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


# 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>


# 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>


# 5e57f1d6 14-Mar-2017 Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>

x86/xen: add CONFIG_XEN_PV to Kconfig

All code to support Xen PV will get under this new option. For the
beginning, check for it in the common code.

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


# 186f4360 13-Jul-2016 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

x86/kernel: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h

Historically a lot of these existed because we did not have
a distinction between what was modular code and what was providing
support to modules via EXPORT_SYMBOL and friends. That changed
when we forked out support for the latter into the export.h file.

This means we should be able to reduce the usage of module.h
in code that is obj-y Makefile or bool Kconfig. The advantage
in doing so is that module.h itself sources about 15 other headers;
adding significantly to what we feed cpp, and it can obscure what
headers we are effectively using.

Since module.h was the source for init.h (for __init) and for
export.h (for EXPORT_SYMBOL) we consider each obj-y/bool instance
for the presence of either and replace as needed. Build testing
revealed some implicit header usage that was fixed up accordingly.

Note that some bool/obj-y instances remain since module.h is
the header for some exception table entry stuff, and for things
like __init_or_module (code that is tossed when MODULES=n).

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160714001901.31603-4-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 1b74dde7 01-Feb-2016 Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>

x86/cpu: Convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> ...) to pr_<level>(...)

- Use the more current logging style pr_<level>(...) instead of the old
printk(KERN_<LEVEL> ...).

- Convert pr_warning() to pr_warn().

Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454384702-21707-1-git-send-email-slaoub@gmail.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>


# 148f9bb8 18-Jun-2013 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

x86: delete __cpuinit usage from all x86 files

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings. In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/x86 uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files. x86 only had the one __CPUINIT used in assembly files,
and it wasn't paired off with a .previous or a __FINIT, so we can
delete it directly w/o any corresponding additional change there.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.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>


# d63d3e62 18-Jul-2012 Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

x86, hyper: fix build with !CONFIG_KVM_GUEST

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


# 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>


# 24a42bae 08-Jul-2011 Anupam Chanda <achanda@nicira.com>

x86, hyper: Change hypervisor detection order

Detect Xen before HyperV because in Viridian compatibility mode Xen
presents itself as HyperV. Move Xen to the top since it seems more
likely that Xen would emulate VMware than vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Anupam Chanda <achanda@nicira.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310150570-26810-1-git-send-email-achanda@nicira.com
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>


# ca65f9fc 29-Jul-2010 Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>

Introduce CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM compile option

This patch introduce a CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM compile time option to
enable/disable Xen PV on HVM support.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>


# b43275d6 26-Jul-2010 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

xen/pvhvm: fix build problem when !CONFIG_XEN

x86_hyper_xen_hvm is only defined when Xen is enabled in the kernel
config.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.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>


# 3998d095 09-May-2010 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

x86, hypervisor: add missing <linux/module.h>

EXPORT_SYMBOL() needs <linux/module.h> to be included; fixes modular
builds of the VMware balloon driver, and any future modular drivers
which depends on the hypervisor.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BE49778.6060800@zytor.com>


# 96f6e775 09-May-2010 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

x86, hypervisor: Export the x86_hyper* symbols

Export x86_hyper and the related specific structures, allowing for
hypervisor identification by modules.

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


# a2a47c6c 06-May-2010 Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>

x86: Detect running on a Microsoft HyperV system

This patch integrates HyperV detection within the framework currently
used by VmWare. With this patch, we can avoid having to replicate the
HyperV detection code in each of the Microsoft HyperV drivers.

Reworked and tweaked by Greg K-H to build properly.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100506190841.GA1605@kroah.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@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>


# 8bdbd962 03-Jul-2009 Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

x86/cpu: Clean up various files a bit

No code changes except printk levels (although some of the K6
mtrr code might be clearer if there were a few as would
splitting out some of the intel cache code).

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 4e42ebd5 21-Nov-2008 Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>

x86: hypervisor - fix sparse warnings

Impact: fix sparse build warning

Fix the following sparse warnings:

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c:37:15: warning: symbol
'get_hypervisor_tsc_freq' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c:53:16: warning: symbol
'init_hypervisor' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Cc: "Alok N Kataria" <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: "Dan Hecht" <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# eca0cd02 31-Oct-2008 Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>

x86: Add a synthetic TSC_RELIABLE feature bit.

Impact: Changes timebase calibration on Vmware.

Use the synthetic TSC_RELIABLE bit to workaround virtualization anomalies.

Virtual TSCs can be kept nearly in sync, but because the virtual TSC
offset is set by software, it's not perfect. So, the TSC
synchronization test can fail. Even then the TSC can be used as a
clocksource since the VMware platform exports a reliable TSC to the
guest for timekeeping purposes. Use this bit to check if we need to
skip the TSC sync checks.

Along with this also set the CONSTANT_TSC bit when on VMware, since we
still want to use TSC as clocksource on VM running over hardware which
has unsynchronized TSC's (opteron's), since the hypervisor will take
care of providing consistent TSC to the guest.

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>


# 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>