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Sheng Yang
d9b8ca8474 xen: HVM X2APIC support
This patch is similiar to Gleb Natapov's patch for KVM, which enable the
hypervisor to emulate x2apic feature for the guest. By this way, the emulation
of lapic would be simpler with x2apic interface(MSR), and faster.

[v2: Re-organized 'xen_hvm_need_lapic' per Ian Campbell suggestion]

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-01-07 10:03:50 -05:00
Sheng Yang
2904ed8dd5 apic: Move hypervisor detection of x2apic to hypervisor.h
Then we can reuse it for Xen later.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-01-07 10:03:49 -05:00
Sheng Yang
bee6ab53e6 x86: early PV on HVM features initialization.
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>
2010-07-22 16:45:35 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
e08cae4181 x86: Clean up the hypervisor layer
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>
2010-05-07 17:13:04 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
2d826404f0 x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_ops
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>
2009-08-31 09:35:47 +02:00
Alok Kataria
88b094fb8d x86: Hypervisor detection and get tsc_freq from hypervisor
Impact: Changes timebase calibration on Vmware.

v3->v2 : Abstract the hypervisor detection and feature (tsc_freq) request
	 behind a hypervisor.c file
v2->v1 : Add a x86_hyper_vendor field to the cpuinfo_x86 structure.
	 This avoids multiple calls to the hypervisor detection function.

This patch adds function to detect if we are running under VMware.
The current way to check if we are on VMware is following,
#  check if "hypervisor present bit" is set, if so read the 0x40000000
   cpuid leaf and check for "VMwareVMware" signature.
#  if the above fails, check the DMI vendors name for "VMware" string
   if we find one we query the VMware hypervisor port to check if we are
   under VMware.

The DMI + "VMware hypervisor port check" is needed for older VMware products,
which don't implement the hypervisor signature cpuid leaf.
Also note that since we are checking for the DMI signature the hypervisor
port should never be accessed on native hardware.

This patch also adds a hypervisor_get_tsc_freq function, instead of
calibrating the frequency which can be error prone in virtualized
environment, we ask the hypervisor for it. We get the frequency from
the hypervisor by accessing the hypervisor port if we are running on VMware.
Other hypervisors too can add code to the generic routine to get frequency on
their platform.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-11-01 18:57:08 -07:00