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This is the 4.14.82 stable release
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commit 15035388439f892017d38b05214d3cda6578af64 upstream.
When running function tracing on a Linux guest running on VMware
Workstation, the guest would crash. This is due to tracing of the
sched_clock internal call of the VMware vmware_sched_clock(), which
causes an infinite recursion within the tracing code (clock calls must
not be traced).
Make vmware_sched_clock() not traced by ftrace.
Fixes: 80e9a4f21fd7c ("x86/vmware: Add paravirt sched clock")
Reported-by: GwanYeong Kim <gy741.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
CC: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
CC: GwanYeong Kim <gy741.kim@gmail.com>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
CC: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181109152207.4d3e7d70@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
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commit 03b2a320b19f1424e9ac9c21696be9c60b6d0d93 upstream.
The x86_hyper pointer is only used for checking whether a virtual
device is supporting the hypervisor the system is running on.
Use an enum for that purpose instead and drop the x86_hyper pointer.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Cc: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: haiyangz@microsoft.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kys@microsoft.com
Cc: linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: moltmann@vmware.com
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: pv-drivers@vmware.com
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com
Cc: sthemmin@microsoft.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109132739.23465-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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and 'struct x86_init'
commit f72e38e8ec8869ac0ba5a75d7d2f897d98a1454e upstream.
Instead of x86_hyper being either NULL on bare metal or a pointer to a
struct hypervisor_x86 in case of the kernel running as a guest merge
the struct into x86_platform and x86_init.
This will remove the need for wrappers making it hard to find out what
is being called. With dummy functions added for all callbacks testing
for a NULL function pointer can be removed, too.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Cc: haiyangz@microsoft.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kys@microsoft.com
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: sthemmin@microsoft.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109132739.23465-2-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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There is no need to set the same capabilities for each cpu
individually. This can be done for all cpus in platform initialization.
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170227122922.26230-1-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 platform updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Two changes:
- implement various VMWare guest OS improvements/fixes (Alexey
Makhalov)
- unexport a spurious export from the intel-mid platform driver
(Lukas Wunner)"
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/vmware: Add paravirt sched clock
x86/vmware: Add basic paravirt ops support
x86/vmware: Use tsc_khz value for calibrate_cpu()
x86/platform/intel-mid: Unexport intel_mid_pci_set_power_state()
x86/vmware: Read tsc_khz only once at boot time
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The default sched_clock() implementation is native_sched_clock(). It
contains code to handle non constant frequency TSCs, which creates
overhead for systems with constant frequency TSCs.
The vmware hypervisor guarantees a constant frequency TSC, so
native_sched_clock() is not required and slower than a dedicated function
which operates with one time calculated conversion factors.
Calculate the conversion factors at boot time from the tsc frequency and
install an optimized sched_clock() function via paravirt ops.
The paravirtualized clock can be disabled on the kernel command line with
the new 'no-vmw-sched-clock' option.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: pv-drivers@vmware.com
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161028075432.90579-4-amakhalov@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Add basic paravirt support:
1. Set pv_info.name to "VMware hypervisor" to have proper boot log message
Booting paravirtualized kernel on VMware hypervisor
instead of "... on bare hardware"
2. Set pv_cpu_ops.io_delay() to empty function - paravirt_noop() to
avoid vm-exits on IO delays because io delays they are not required.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: pv-drivers@vmware.com
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161028075432.90579-3-amakhalov@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Commit aa297292d708 ("x86/tsc: Enumerate SKL cpu_khz and tsc_khz via
CPUID") separated the calibration mechanisms for cpu_khz and tsc_khz.
Since the vmware hypervisor provides a constant frequency TSC to the guest,
this change can lead to divergence between the tsc and the cpu frequency
after vmotion, which might confuse the user.
Solve this by overriding the x86 platform cpu calibration callback with the
vmware specific tsc calibration function.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: pv-drivers@vmware.com
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161028075432.90579-2-amakhalov@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Re-factor the vmware platform setup code to query the hypervisor for tsc
frequency only once during boot. Since the VMware hypervisor guarantees
constant TSC, calibrate_tsc now uses the saved value.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161020050211.GA25304@amakhalov-virtual-machine
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The timer_irq_works() boot check may sometimes fail in a VM, when
the Host is overcommitted or when the Guest is running nested.
Since the intended check is unnecessary on VMware's virtual
hardware, by-pass it.
Signed-off-by: Renat Valiullin <rvaliullin@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161013184539.GA11497@rvaliullin-vm
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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In a virtualized environment the APIC timer calibration can go wrong when
the host is overcommitted or the guest is running nested. This results
in the APIC timers operating at an incorrect frequency.
Since VMware supports a mechanism to retrieve the local APIC frequency we
can ask the hypervisor for it and skip the APIC calibration loop.
Signed-off-by: Renat Valiullin <rvaliullin@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161004201148.GA1421@uu64vm
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Historically a lot of these existed because we did not have
a distinction between what was modular code and what was providing
support to modules via EXPORT_SYMBOL and friends. That changed
when we forked out support for the latter into the export.h file.
This means we should be able to reduce the usage of module.h
in code that is obj-y Makefile or bool Kconfig. The advantage
in doing so is that module.h itself sources about 15 other headers;
adding significantly to what we feed cpp, and it can obscure what
headers we are effectively using.
Since module.h was the source for init.h (for __init) and for
export.h (for EXPORT_SYMBOL) we consider each obj-y/bool instance
for the presence of either and replace as needed. Build testing
revealed some implicit header usage that was fixed up accordingly.
Note that some bool/obj-y instances remain since module.h is
the header for some exception table entry stuff, and for things
like __init_or_module (code that is tossed when MODULES=n).
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160714001901.31603-4-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Use boot_cpu_has() instead.
Tested-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: sparmaintainer@unisys.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459266123-21878-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- Use the more current logging style pr_<level>(...) instead of the old
printk(KERN_<LEVEL> ...).
- Convert pr_warning() to pr_warn().
Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454384702-21707-1-git-send-email-slaoub@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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We try to handle the hypervisor compatibility mode by detecting hypervisor
through a specific order. This is not robust, since hypervisors may implement
each others features.
This patch tries to handle this situation by always choosing the last one in the
CPUID leaves. This is done by letting .detect() return a priority instead of
true/false and just re-using the CPUID leaf where the signature were found as
the priority (or 1 if it was found by DMI). Then we can just pick hypervisor who
has the highest priority. Other sophisticated detection method could also be
implemented on top.
Suggested by H. Peter Anvin and Paolo Bonzini.
Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Doug Covelli <dcovelli@vmware.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1374742475-2485-4-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.
After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.
Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings. In any case, they are temporary and harmless.
This removes all the arch/x86 uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files. x86 only had the one __CPUINIT used in assembly files,
and it wasn't paired off with a .previous or a __FINIT, so we can
delete it directly w/o any corresponding additional change there.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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This patch updates x2apic initializaition code to allow x2apic
on VMware platform even without interrupt remapping support.
The hypervisor_x2apic_available hook was added in x2apic
initialization code and used by KVM and XEN, before this.
I have also cleaned up that code to export this hook through the
hypervisor_x86 structure.
Compile tested for KVM and XEN configs, this patch doesn't have
any functional effect on those two platforms.
On VMware platform, verified that x2apic is used in physical
mode on products that support this.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Covelli <dcovelli@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358466282.423.60.camel@akataria-dtop.eng.vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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They were generated by 'codespell' and then manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1300389856-1099-3-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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When running on VMware's platform, we have seen situations where
the AP's try to calibrate the lpj values and fail to get good calibration
runs becasue of timing issues. As a result delays don't work correctly
on all cpus.
The solutions is to set preset_lpj value based on the current tsc frequency
value. This is similar to what KVM does as well.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <1280790637.14933.29.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Export x86_hyper and the related specific structures, allowing for
hypervisor identification by modules.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BE49778.6060800@zytor.com>
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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>
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This is a standalone version of VMware Balloon driver. Ballooning is a
technique that allows hypervisor dynamically limit the amount of memory
available to the guest (with guest cooperation). In the overcommit
scenario, when hypervisor set detects that it needs to shuffle some
memory, it instructs the driver to allocate certain number of pages, and
the underlying memory gets returned to the hypervisor. Later hypervisor
may return memory to the guest by reattaching memory to the pageframes and
instructing the driver to "deflate" balloon.
We are submitting a standalone driver because KVM maintainer (Avi Kivity)
expressed opinion (rightly) that our transport does not fit well into
virtqueue paradigm and thus it does not make much sense to integrate with
virtio.
There were also some concerns whether current ballooning technique is the
right thing. If there appears a better framework to achieve this we are
prepared to evaluate and switch to using it, but in the meantime we'd like
to get this driver upstream.
We want to get the driver accepted in distributions so that users do not
have to deal with an out-of-tree module and many distributions have
"upstream first" requirement.
The driver has been shipping for a number of years and users running on
VMware platform will have it installed as part of VMware Tools even if it
will not come from a distribution, thus there should not be additional
risk in pulling the driver into mainline. The driver will only activate
if host is VMware so everyone else should not be affected at all.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On an AMD-64 system the processor frequency that is printed during
system boot, may be different than the tsc frequency that was
returned by the hypervisor, due to the value returned from
calibrate_cpu.
For debugging timekeeping or other related issues it might be
better to get the tsc_khz value returned by the hypervisor.
The patch below now prints the tsc frequency that the VMware
hypervisor returned.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <1252095219.12518.13.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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>
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No code changes except printk levels (although some of the K6
mtrr code might be clearer if there were a few as would
splitting out some of the intel cache code).
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: fix sparse build warning
Fix the following sparse warnings:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c:69:5: warning: symbol 'vmware_platform'
was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c:89:15: warning: symbol
'vmware_get_tsc_khz' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c:107:16: warning: symbol
'vmware_set_feature_bits' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Cc: "Alok N Kataria" <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: "Dan Hecht" <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: Should permit VMware detection on older platforms where the
vendor is changed. Could theoretically cause a regression if some
weird serial number scheme contains the string "VMware" by pure
chance. Seems unlikely, especially with the mixed case.
In some user configured cases, VMware may choose not to put a VMware specific
DMI string, but the product serial key is always there and is VMware specific.
Add a interface to check the serial key, when checking for VMware in the DMI
information.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Impact: Fix possible failure to calibrate the TSC on Vmware near 4 GHz
The current version of the code to get the tsc frequency from
the VMware hypervisor, will be broken on processor with frequency
(4G-1) HZ, because on such processors eax will have UINT_MAX
and that would be legitimate.
We instead check that EBX did change to decide if we were able to
read the frequency from the hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Impact: Changes timebase calibration on Vmware.
Use the synthetic TSC_RELIABLE bit to workaround virtualization anomalies.
Virtual TSCs can be kept nearly in sync, but because the virtual TSC
offset is set by software, it's not perfect. So, the TSC
synchronization test can fail. Even then the TSC can be used as a
clocksource since the VMware platform exports a reliable TSC to the
guest for timekeeping purposes. Use this bit to check if we need to
skip the TSC sync checks.
Along with this also set the CONSTANT_TSC bit when on VMware, since we
still want to use TSC as clocksource on VM running over hardware which
has unsynchronized TSC's (opteron's), since the hypervisor will take
care of providing consistent TSC to the guest.
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>
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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>
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Bruce Ashfield
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Juergen Gross
Masanari Iida
Linus Torvalds
Alexey Makhalov
Renat Valiullin
Paul Gortmaker
Borislav Petkov
Chen Yucong
Jason Wang
Alok N Kataria
Lucas De Marchi
H. Peter Anvin
Dmitry Torokhov
Thomas Gleixner
Alan Cox
Hannes Eder