Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] xen: add sysfs node for guest type

[Juergen Gross]

On 22/05/17 17:37, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 22.05.17 at 17:28, <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 22/05/17 17:23, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:57:00AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor
>>>> @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ Contact:	xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>>>>  Description:
>>>>  		Compiler which was used to build the Xen hypervisor
>>>>  
>>>> +What:		/sys/hypervisor/guest_type
>>>> +Date:		May 2017
>>>> +KernelVersion:	4.12
>>>> +Contact:	xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>>>> +Description:
>>>> +		Type of guest:
>>>> +		"native": standard guest type on arm
>>>> +		"HVM": fully virtualized guest (x86)
>>>> +		"PV": paravirtualized guest (x86)
>>>> +		"PVH": fully virtualized guest without legacy emulation (x86)
>>>> +		"PVHVM": fully virtualized guest using paravirtualized
>>>> +			interfaces (e.g. interrupts, timers) (x86)
>>>
>>> What about KVM? Shouldn't that also be here?
>>
>> /sys/hypervisor is Xen-only (at least up to now).
> 
> How that? It's being created by drivers/base/hypervisor.c,
> and iirc had been introduced for s390 originally.

Hmm, cscope fooled me. Maybe it should build the data base for all
architectures...

Thanks for the note!


Juergen