The hardware virtualization technology evolves very fast. But currently
it's hard to tell if your CPU support a certain kind of HW technology
without digging into the source code.
The patch add a new catagory in "flags" under /proc/cpuinfo. Now "flags"
can indicate the (important) HW virtulization features the CPU supported
as well.
Current implementation just cover Intel VMX side.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h | 9 ++++++++-
2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index 5f76bf1..99468db 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -196,6 +196,44 @@ static int __cpuinit intel_num_cpu_cores(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
return 1;
}
+static void __cpuinit detect_vmx_virtcap(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
+{
+ /* Intel VMX MSR indicated features */
+#define X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS_TPR_SHADOW 0x00200000
+#define X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS_VNMI 0x00400000
+#define X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS_2ND_CTLS 0x80000000
+#define X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS2_VIRT_APIC 0x00000001
+#define X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS2_EPT 0x00000002
+#define X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS2_VPID 0x00000020
+
+ u32 vmx_msr_low, vmx_msr_high, msr_ctl, msr_ctl2;
+
+ clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_TPR_SHADOW);
+ clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_VNMI);
+ clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_FLEXPRIORITY);
+ clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_EPT);
+ clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_VPID);
+
+ rdmsr(MSR_IA32_VMX_PROCBASED_CTLS, vmx_msr_low, vmx_msr_high);
+ msr_ctl = vmx_msr_high | vmx_msr_low;
+ if (msr_ctl & X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS_TPR_SHADOW)
+ set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_TPR_SHADOW);
+ if (msr_ctl & X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS_VNMI)
+ set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_VNMI);
+ if (msr_ctl & X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS_2ND_CTLS) {
+ rdmsr(MSR_IA32_VMX_PROCBASED_CTLS2,
+ vmx_msr_low, ...
