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2011-01-07xen: HVM X2APIC supportSheng Yang1-0/+3
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>
2011-01-07apic: Move hypervisor detection of x2apic to hypervisor.hSheng Yang1-0/+9
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>
2010-07-22x86: early PV on HVM features initialization.Sheng Yang1-0/+1
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>
2010-05-07x86: Clean up the hypervisor layerH. Peter Anvin1-2/+25
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>
2009-08-31x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_opsThomas Gleixner1-1/+1
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>
2008-11-01x86: Hypervisor detection and get tsc_freq from hypervisorAlok Kataria1-0/+26
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>