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x86/vmware: Add a header file for hypercall definitions
authorThomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:03:51 +0000 (10:03 +0200)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:32:06 +0000 (13:32 +0200)
commit676bdda39c14133bf3d43e920bfcfcc2602a0c80
tree5edeb1441d26fbf4c1d4c10b5b2d40b19f8f63f9
parentb4e6e32ac13c38377bb0e7bec4cf8c08cebda7eb
x86/vmware: Add a header file for hypercall definitions

The new header is intended to be used by drivers using the backdoor.
Follow the KVM example using alternatives self-patching to choose
between vmcall, vmmcall and io instructions.

Also define two new CPU feature flags to indicate hypervisor support
for vmcall- and vmmcall instructions. The new XF86_FEATURE_VMW_VMMCALL
flag is needed because using XF86_FEATURE_VMMCALL might break QEMU/KVM
setups using the vmmouse driver. They rely on XF86_FEATURE_VMMCALL
on AMD to get the kvm_hypercall() right. But they do not yet implement
vmmcall for the VMware hypercall used by the vmmouse driver.

 [ bp: reflow hypercall %edx usage explanation comment. ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Doug Covelli <dcovelli@vmware.com>
Cc: Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
Cc: Robert Hoo <robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190828080353.12658-3-thomas_os@shipmail.org
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arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
arch/x86/include/asm/vmware.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c