[PATCH 1/2] show hypervisor information on cpuinfo

From: Glauber Costa
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 13:43:18 EST


From: Glauber Costa <gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx>

It is useful to easily grab information about whether or not
we're running on top of a hypervisor. And in case affirmative,
which one.

This patch shows it in a newly added "hypervisor" field to cpuinfo.
This seems to me like the best suited place for this.

We currently differentiate between vmware and none.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c | 8 ++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c | 8 ++++++--
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
index 369f5c5..a0c0b0f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
@@ -22,5 +22,6 @@

extern unsigned long get_hypervisor_tsc_freq(void);
extern void init_hypervisor(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
+extern char *hypervisor_str(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);

#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
index fb5b86a..8c3fca7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
@@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ hypervisor_set_feature_bits(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
}
}

+char * __cpuinit hypervisor_str(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
+{
+ if (c->x86_hyper_vendor == X86_HYPER_VENDOR_VMWARE)
+ return "VMWare";
+ else
+ return "none";
+}
+
void __cpuinit init_hypervisor(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
detect_hypervisor_vendor(c);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
index 01b1244..3700607 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/cpufreq.h>

+#include <asm/hypervisor.h>
+
/*
* Get CPU information for use by the procfs.
*/
@@ -90,12 +92,14 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
"vendor_id\t: %s\n"
"cpu family\t: %d\n"
"model\t\t: %u\n"
- "model name\t: %s\n",
+ "model name\t: %s\n"
+ "hypervisor\t: %s\n",
cpu,
c->x86_vendor_id[0] ? c->x86_vendor_id : "unknown",
c->x86,
c->x86_model,
- c->x86_model_id[0] ? c->x86_model_id : "unknown");
+ c->x86_model_id[0] ? c->x86_model_id : "unknown",
+ hypervisor_str(c));

if (c->x86_mask || c->cpuid_level >= 0)
seq_printf(m, "stepping\t: %d\n", c->x86_mask);
--
1.5.6.5

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