[PATCH 2/2] show hypervisor information on sysfs

From: Glauber Costa
Date: Fri Feb 06 2009 - 10:47:46 EST


It is useful to easily grab information about whether or not
we're running on top of a hypervisor. And in case affirmative,
which one.

This patch shows it in /sys/hypervisor (and as a site effect, allow
it to be directly selectable).

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c | 2 ++
drivers/base/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/base/hypervisor.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
index 369f5c5..5a9cc18 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
@@ -22,5 +22,6 @@

extern unsigned long get_hypervisor_tsc_freq(void);
extern void init_hypervisor(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
+extern void set_hypervisor_name(const char *name);

#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
index ee1b228..29cf98c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c
@@ -31,8 +31,10 @@ detect_hypervisor_vendor(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
if (vmware_platform()) {
c->x86_hyper_vendor = X86_HYPER_VENDOR_VMWARE;
+ set_hypervisor_name("VMware");
} else if (kvm_para_available()) {
c->x86_hyper_vendor = X86_HYPER_VENDOR_KVM;
+ set_hypervisor_name("KVM");
} else {
c->x86_hyper_vendor = X86_HYPER_VENDOR_NONE;
}
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 8f006f9..209e03a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ config DEBUG_DEVRES
If you are unsure about this, Say N here.

config SYS_HYPERVISOR
- bool
+ bool "/sys/hypervisor interface"
default n

endmenu
diff --git a/drivers/base/hypervisor.c b/drivers/base/hypervisor.c
index 6428cba..dcf6f25 100644
--- a/drivers/base/hypervisor.c
+++ b/drivers/base/hypervisor.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
* Copyright (C) IBM Corp. 2006
* Copyright (C) 2007 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
* Copyright (C) 2007 Novell Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2009 Glauber Costa, Red Hat Inc.
*
* This file is released under the GPLv2
*/
@@ -15,10 +16,43 @@
struct kobject *hypervisor_kobj;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hypervisor_kobj);

+static const char *hv_string;
+
+static inline const char *get_hypervisor_name(void)
+{
+ if (!hv_string)
+ return "none";
+ else
+ return hv_string;
+}
+
+void set_hypervisor_name(const char *name)
+{
+ hv_string = name;
+}
+
+static ssize_t hyper_name_show(struct kobject *kobj,
+ struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", get_hypervisor_name());
+}
+
+static struct kobj_attribute hyper_name_attr =
+ __ATTR(hypervisor_name, S_IRUGO, hyper_name_show, NULL);
+
+
int __init hypervisor_init(void)
{
+ int ret;
hypervisor_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("hypervisor", NULL);
if (!hypervisor_kobj)
return -ENOMEM;
+
+ ret = sysfs_create_file(hypervisor_kobj, &hyper_name_attr.attr);
+ if (ret) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "could not create hyper_name file\n");
+ return ret;
+ }
+
return 0;
}
--
1.5.6.5

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