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>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index 24cf5aefb704..7763307b4137 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -971,6 +971,21 @@ unsigned long calc_aperfmperf_ratio(struct aperfmperf *old,
         return ratio;
 }
 
+static inline uint32_t hypervisor_cpuid_base(const char *sig, uint32_t leaves)
+{
+        uint32_t base, eax, signature[3];
+
+        for (base = 0x40000000; base < 0x40010000; base += 0x100) {
+                cpuid(base, &eax, &signature[0], &signature[1], &signature[2]);
+
+                if (!memcmp(sig, signature, 12) &&
+                    (leaves == 0 || ((eax - base) >= leaves)))
+                        return base;
+        }
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
 extern unsigned long arch_align_stack(unsigned long sp);
 extern void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end);