Commit db34bbb7 authored Feb 03, 2013 by K. Y. Srinivasan Committed by H. Peter Anvin Feb 12, 2013

X86: Add a check to catch Xen emulation of Hyper-V



Xen emulates Hyper-V to host enlightened Windows. Looks like this
emulation may be turned on by default even for Linux guests. Check and
fail Hyper-V detection if we are on Xen.

[ hpa: the problem here is that Xen doesn't emulate Hyper-V well
  enough, and if the Xen support isn't compiled in, we end up stubling
  over the Hyper-V emulation and try to activate it -- and it fails. ]

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359940959-32168-2-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com


Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

parent 32068f65

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c

+7 −0

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		@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ static bool __init ms_hyperv_platform(void)
		if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR))
		return false;

		/*
		* Xen emulates Hyper-V to support enlightened Windows.
		* Check to see first if we are on a Xen Hypervisor.
		*/
		if (xen_cpuid_base())
		return false;

		cpuid(HYPERV_CPUID_VENDOR_AND_MAX_FUNCTIONS,
		&eax, &hyp_signature[0], &hyp_signature[1], &hyp_signature[2]);