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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:56:34 +0200
From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Use CPUID to communicate with the hypervisor.
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 05:09:00PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Alok Kataria wrote:
>> +{
>> +	if (cpu_has_hypervisor) {
>> +		unsigned int eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
>> +		char hyper_vendor_id[13];
>> +
>> +		cpuid(HYPERVISOR_INFO_LEAF, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
>> +		memcpy(hyper_vendor_id + 0, &ebx, 4);
>> +		memcpy(hyper_vendor_id + 4, &ecx, 4);
>> +		memcpy(hyper_vendor_id + 8, &edx, 4);
>> +		hyper_vendor_id[12] = '\0';
>> +		printk(KERN_INFO "Hypervisor vendor id %s\n", hyper_vendor_id);
>> +	}
>> +}
>> +
>
> This should be broken out into a separate file in cpu/*, because we  
> *will* need to detect hypervisors by other means.

 Yes. It would be nice to have "Hypervisor vendor id" somewhere in
 /sys or /proc. It seems that userspace is already hungry for that
 information:

 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/1788

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>