linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c, branch v3.1.2 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules x86, hyper: Change hypervisor detection order 2011-07-08T23:22:29+00:00 Anupam Chanda achanda@nicira.com 2011-07-08T18:42:50+00:00 24a42bae6852d27ae569757f5415c91538e6a255 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> 
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>
Introduce CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM compile option 2010-07-29T18:11:33+00:00 Stefano Stabellini stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com 2010-07-29T13:37:48+00:00 ca65f9fc0c447da5b270b05c41c21b19c88617c3 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> 
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>
xen/pvhvm: fix build problem when !CONFIG_XEN 2010-07-27T06:13:28+00:00 Jeremy Fitzhardinge jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com 2010-07-26T17:38:45+00:00 b43275d661baa5f1f72dacd9033d6eda09d9fe87 x86_hyper_xen_hvm is only defined when Xen is enabled in the kernel config. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> 
x86_hyper_xen_hvm is only defined when Xen is enabled in the kernel
config.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
x86: early PV on HVM features initialization. 2010-07-22T23:45:35+00:00 Sheng Yang sheng@linux.intel.com 2010-05-14T11:39:33+00:00 bee6ab53e652a414af20392899879b58cd80d033 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> 
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>
x86, hypervisor: add missing <linux/module.h> 2010-05-10T05:46:54+00:00 H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com 2010-05-10T05:46:54+00:00 3998d095354d2a3062bdaa821ef07a1e1c82873c 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> 
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>
x86, hypervisor: Export the x86_hyper* symbols 2010-05-09T08:10:34+00:00 H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com 2010-05-09T08:10:34+00:00 96f6e775b58687d85ee33004d414419b5ec34106 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> 
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>
x86: Clean up the hypervisor layer 2010-05-08T00:13:04+00:00 H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com 2010-05-07T23:57:28+00:00 e08cae4181af9483b04ecfac48f01c8e5a5f27bf 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> 
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>
x86: Detect running on a Microsoft HyperV system 2010-05-07T01:24:15+00:00 Ky Srinivasan ksrinivasan@novell.com 2010-05-06T19:08:41+00:00 a2a47c6c3d1a7c01da4464b3b7be93b924f874c1 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> 
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>
x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_ops 2009-08-31T07:35:47+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2009-08-20T15:06:25+00:00 2d826404f0bdcac2a4dd7e3c446b70d6a3b63b78 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> 
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>
x86/cpu: Clean up various files a bit 2009-07-11T09:24:09+00:00 Alan Cox alan@linux.intel.com 2009-07-03T23:35:45+00:00 8bdbd962ecfcbdd96f9dbb02d780b4553afd2543 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> 
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>