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authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>2013-07-25 16:54:35 +0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2013-08-05 06:35:33 -0700
commit9df56f19a500bea90d160be1bf77e4fbcd204d3f (patch)
treec2a19340b172daba4f8005788f10cdbfd4455327 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
parent1085ba7f552d84aa8ac0ae903fa8d0cc2ff9f79d (diff)
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/vmware.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
index 7076878404ec..628a059a9a06 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static void __init vmware_platform_setup(void)
* serial key should be enough, as this will always have a VMware
* specific string when running under VMware hypervisor.
*/
-static bool __init vmware_platform(void)
+static uint32_t __init vmware_platform(void)
{
if (cpu_has_hypervisor) {
unsigned int eax;
@@ -102,12 +102,12 @@ static bool __init vmware_platform(void)
cpuid(CPUID_VMWARE_INFO_LEAF, &eax, &hyper_vendor_id[0],
&hyper_vendor_id[1], &hyper_vendor_id[2]);
if (!memcmp(hyper_vendor_id, "VMwareVMware", 12))
- return true;
+ return CPUID_VMWARE_INFO_LEAF;
} else if (dmi_available && dmi_name_in_serial("VMware") &&
__vmware_platform())
- return true;
+ return 1;
- return false;
+ return 0;
}
/*