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x86: Introduce hypervisor_cpuid_base()

This patch introduce hypervisor_cpuid_base() which loop test the hypervisor
existence function until the signature match and check the number of leaves if
required. This could be used by Xen/KVM guest to detect the existence of
hypervisor.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1374742475-2485-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

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Jason Wang and committed by
H. Peter Anvin
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arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
··· 971 971 return ratio; 972 972 } 973 973 974 + static inline uint32_t hypervisor_cpuid_base(const char *sig, uint32_t leaves) 975 + { 976 + uint32_t base, eax, signature[3]; 977 + 978 + for (base = 0x40000000; base < 0x40010000; base += 0x100) { 979 + cpuid(base, &eax, &signature[0], &signature[1], &signature[2]); 980 + 981 + if (!memcmp(sig, signature, 12) && 982 + (leaves == 0 || ((eax - base) >= leaves))) 983 + return base; 984 + } 985 + 986 + return 0; 987 + } 988 + 974 989 extern unsigned long arch_align_stack(unsigned long sp); 975 990 extern void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end); 976 991