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[1/2] tell cpuinfo if we're running on top of KVM

Message ID 1233935217-24090-2-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
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Glauber Costa Feb. 6, 2009, 3:46 p.m. UTC 
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.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h |    1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c |    3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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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 fb5b86a..ee1b228 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;
 	}