similar to: [PATCH 4.14 064/159] x86/virt, x86/platform: Merge struct x86_hyper into struct x86_platform and struct x86_init

4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com> 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

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. Cc: kys at microsoft.com Cc: haiyangz at microsoft.com Cc: sthemmin at microsoft.com Cc: akataria at vmware.com Cc: pbonzini at redhat.com Cc: rkrcmar at redhat.com Cc: boris.ostrovsky at oracle.com

On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 02:27:36PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > 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. > > Cc: kys at microsoft.com > Cc: haiyangz at microsoft.com > Cc: sthemmin at microsoft.com > Cc:

On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 02:27:36PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > 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. > > Cc: kys at microsoft.com > Cc: haiyangz at microsoft.com > Cc: sthemmin at microsoft.com > Cc:

Please consider this patch to allow x2apic without IR support when running on VMware platform. Tested on top of 3.8-rc3. Thanks, Alok -- Allow x2apic without IR on VMware platform. From: Alok N Kataria <akataria at vmware.com> This patch updates x2apic initializaition code to allow x2apic on VMware platform even without interrupt remapping support. The hypervisor_x2apic_available hook

Please consider this patch to allow x2apic without IR support when running on VMware platform. Tested on top of 3.8-rc3. Thanks, Alok -- Allow x2apic without IR on VMware platform. From: Alok N Kataria <akataria at vmware.com> This patch updates x2apic initializaition code to allow x2apic on VMware platform even without interrupt remapping support. The hypervisor_x2apic_available hook

Add generic virtualization support for pinning the current vcpu to a specified physical cpu. As this operation isn't performance critical (a very limited set of operations like BIOS calls and SMIs is expected to need this) just add a hypervisor specific indirection. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com> --- V4: move this patch some places up in the series WARN_ONCE in

Booting a Xen PVH guest requires a special boot entry as it is mandatory to setup some Xen-specific interfaces rather early. When grub or OVMF are used as boot loaders, however, those will fill the boot parameters in zeropage and there is no longer a need to do something PVH specific in the early boot path. This patch series adds support for that scenario by identifying PVH environment and doing

Booting a Xen PVH guest requires a special boot entry as it is mandatory to setup some Xen-specific interfaces rather early. When grub or OVMF are used as boot loaders, however, those will fill the boot parameters in zeropage and there is no longer a need to do something PVH specific in the early boot path. This patch series adds support for that scenario by identifying PVH environment and doing

Add generic virtualization support for pinning the current vcpu to a specified physical cpu. As this operation isn't performance critical (a very limited set of operations like BIOS calls and SMIs is expected to need this) just add a hypervisor specific indirection. Such a pinning should last as short as possible as it might block sensible vcpu scheduling and maybe other hypervisor functions

Add generic virtualization support for pinning the current vcpu to a specified physical cpu. As this operation isn't performance critical (a very limited set of operations like BIOS calls and SMIs is expected to need this) just add a hypervisor specific indirection. Such a pinning should last as short as possible as it might block sensible vcpu scheduling and maybe other hypervisor functions

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() returns a priority instead of true/false and just re-using the CPUID leaf where the signature

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() returns a priority instead of true/false and just re-using the CPUID leaf where the signature

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() returns a priority instead of true/false and just re-using the CPUID leaf where the signature

From: Doug Covelli <dcovelli at vmware.com> This change adds VMware specific handling for #VC faults caused by VMMCALL instructions. Signed-off-by: Doug Covelli <dcovelli at vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky at amd.com> [ jroedel at suse.de: - Adapt to different paravirt interface ] Co-developed-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel at suse.de> Signed-off-by:

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 at vmware.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> Cc: x86 at kernel.org Cc: virtualization at lists.linux-foundation.org

Some hardware models (e.g. Dell Studio 1555 laptops) require calls to the firmware to be issued on cpu 0 only. As Dom0 might have to use these calls, add xen_pin_vcpu() to achieve this functionality. In case either the domain doesn't have the privilege to make the related hypercall or the hypervisor isn't supporting it, issue a warning once and disable further pinning attempts.

> #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT > +/* > + * Paravirt alternatives are applied much earlier than normal alternatives. > + * They are only applied when running on a hypervisor. They replace some > + * native instructions with calls to pv ops. > + */ > +void __init apply_pv_alternatives(void) > +{ > + setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PV_OPS); Not for Xen HVM guests. > +

On 10/06/2017 10:32 AM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 04:35:03PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: >>> #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT >>> +/* >>> + * Paravirt alternatives are applied much earlier than normal alternatives. >>> + * They are only applied when running on a hypervisor. They replace some >>> + * native instructions with calls to

With CONFIG_PARAVIRT, the kernel .text is littered with a bunch of calls to pv_irq_ops function pointers, like: callq *0xffffffff81e3a400 (pv_irq_ops.save_fl) In non-Xen paravirt environments -- including native, KVM, Hyper-V, and VMware -- the above code gets patched by native_patch() to look like this instead: pushfq pop %rax nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1) So in most scenarios,