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authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>2013-07-25 10:54:35 +0200
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2013-08-05 15:35:33 +0200
commit9df56f19a500bea90d160be1bf77e4fbcd204d3f (patch)
treec2a19340b172daba4f8005788f10cdbfd4455327 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
parentx86, kvm: Switch to use hypervisor_cpuid_base() (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c15
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
index 87279212d318..36ce402a3fa5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
@@ -25,11 +25,6 @@
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/hypervisor.h>
-/*
- * Hypervisor detect order. This is specified explicitly here because
- * some hypervisors might implement compatibility modes for other
- * hypervisors and therefore need to be detected in specific sequence.
- */
static const __initconst struct hypervisor_x86 * const hypervisors[] =
{
#ifdef CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM
@@ -49,15 +44,19 @@ static inline void __init
detect_hypervisor_vendor(void)
{
const struct hypervisor_x86 *h, * const *p;
+ uint32_t pri, max_pri = 0;
for (p = hypervisors; p < hypervisors + ARRAY_SIZE(hypervisors); p++) {
h = *p;
- if (h->detect()) {
+ pri = h->detect();
+ if (pri != 0 && pri > max_pri) {
+ max_pri = pri;
x86_hyper = h;
- printk(KERN_INFO "Hypervisor detected: %s\n", h->name);
- break;
}
}
+
+ if (max_pri)
+ printk(KERN_INFO "Hypervisor detected: %s\n", x86_hyper->name);
}
void init_hypervisor(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)