1. 31 Aug, 2009 1 commit
  2. 02 Nov, 2008 1 commit
    • Alok Kataria's avatar
      x86: Hypervisor detection and get tsc_freq from hypervisor · 88b094fb
      Alok Kataria authored
      
      Impact: Changes timebase calibration on Vmware.
      
      v3->v2 : Abstract the hypervisor detection and feature (tsc_freq) request
      	 behind a hypervisor.c file
      v2->v1 : Add a x86_hyper_vendor field to the cpuinfo_x86 structure.
      	 This avoids multiple calls to the hypervisor detection function.
      
      This patch adds function 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 hypervisor port to check if we are
         under VMware.
      
      The DMI + "VMware hypervisor port 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 hypervisor
      port should 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 hypervisor port if we are running on VMware.
      Other hypervisors too can add code to the generic routine to get frequency on
      their platform.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      88b094fb
  3. 17 Feb, 2007 1 commit
  4. 28 Jun, 2006 1 commit
    • KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki's avatar
      [PATCH] node hotplug: register cpu: remove node struct · 76b67ed9
      KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
      
      With Goto-san's patch, we can add new pgdat/node at runtime.  I'm now
      considering node-hot-add with cpu + memory on ACPI.
      
      I found acpi container, which describes node, could evaluate cpu before
      memory. This means cpu-hot-add occurs before memory hot add.
      
      In most part, cpu-hot-add doesn't depend on node hot add.  But register_cpu(),
      which creates symbolic link from node to cpu, requires that node should be
      onlined before register_cpu().  When a node is onlined, its pgdat should be
      there.
      
      This patch-set holds off creating symbolic link from node to cpu
      until node is onlined.
      
      This removes node arguments from register_cpu().
      
      Now, register_cpu() requires 'struct node' as its argument.  But the array of
      struct node is now unified in driver/base/node.c now (By Goto's node hotplug
      patch).  We can get struct node in generic way.  So, this argument is not
      necessary now.
      
      This patch also guarantees add cpu under node only when node is onlined.  It
      is necessary for node-hot-add vs.  cpu-hot-add patch following this.
      
      Moreover, register_cpu calculates cpu->node_id by cpu_to_node() without regard
      to its 'struct node *root' argument.  This patch removes it.
      
      Also modify callers of register_cpu()/unregister_cpu, whose args are changed
      by register-cpu-remove-node-struct patch.
      
      [Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org: fix it]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBrice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      76b67ed9
  5. 11 Jan, 2006 1 commit
  6. 16 Apr, 2005 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4