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x86: Correctly detect hypervisor
authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:54:35 +0000 (16:54 +0800)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:35:33 +0000 (06:35 -0700)
commit70995d5017a05e1ff41d41e25b3ce3accd0227df
treec2a19340b172daba4f8005788f10cdbfd4455327
parenta7d6f4b5510192ec5ab3a1971da13fae13237f76
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>
arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c