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)
commit9df56f19a500bea90d160be1bf77e4fbcd204d3f
treec2a19340b172daba4f8005788f10cdbfd4455327
parent1085ba7f552d84aa8ac0ae903fa8d0cc2ff9f79d
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