x86: Get TSC frequency from VMware hypervisor.
From: Alok N Kataria <akataria@xxxxxxxxxx>
This patch adds functions to detect if we are running under VMware.
The current way to check if we are on VMware is following,
# check if "hypervisor present bit" is set, if so read the 0x40000000
cpuid leaf and check for "VMwareVMware" signature.
# if the above fails, check the DMI vendors name for "VMware" string
if we find one we query the VMware backdoor port to check if we are
under VMware.
The DMI + Backdoor check is needed for older VMware products, which
don't implement the hypervisor signature cpuid leaf.
Also note that since we are checking for the DMI signature the backdoor
port would never be accessed on native hardware.
This patch also adds a hypervisor_get_tsc_freq function, instead of
calibrating the frequency which can be error prone in virtualized
environment, we ask the hypervisor for it. We get the frequency from
the hypervisor by accessing the backdoor port if we are running on VMware.
Other hypervisors too can add code to get frequency on their platform
to this routine.