[PATCH 2/2] tell cpuinfo if we're running on top of KVM

From: Glauber Costa
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 13:43:33 EST


From: Glauber Costa <gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx>

KVM has a specific cpuid signature, for a long time now. It's currently
used in the kernel to advertise the possible availability of paravirt
functions, but it's safe to assume that any reasonably recent kvm
hypervisor will sign cpuid this way, regardless of any pv capability.

Use this information to fill in the hypervisor field in cpuinfo.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index 091cd88..919c08d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ struct cpuinfo_x86 {

#define X86_HYPER_VENDOR_NONE 0
#define X86_HYPER_VENDOR_VMWARE 1
+#define X86_HYPER_VENDOR_KVM 2

/*
* capabilities of CPUs
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
index 8c3fca7..251817a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@

#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/vmware.h>
+#include <asm/kvm_para.h>
#include <asm/hypervisor.h>

static inline void __cpuinit
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ detect_hypervisor_vendor(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
if (vmware_platform()) {
c->x86_hyper_vendor = X86_HYPER_VENDOR_VMWARE;
+ } else if (kvm_para_available()) {
+ c->x86_hyper_vendor = X86_HYPER_VENDOR_KVM;
} else {
c->x86_hyper_vendor = X86_HYPER_VENDOR_NONE;
}
@@ -55,6 +58,8 @@ char * __cpuinit hypervisor_str(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
if (c->x86_hyper_vendor == X86_HYPER_VENDOR_VMWARE)
return "VMWare";
+ else if (c->x86_hyper_vendor == X86_HYPER_VENDOR_KVM)
+ return "KVM";
else
return "none";
}
--
1.5.6.5

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