Rework hypervisor detection
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 27 18:29:48 UTC 2014
On Monday, October 27, 2014 12:47:13 PM Conrad Meyer wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I don't have access to phabricator so I'll try and review in email.
>
> > +#ifdef XEN
> > +int vm_guest = VM_GUEST_XEN;
> > +#else
> > +int vm_guest = VM_GUEST_NO; /* Running as virtual machine guest? */
> > +#endif
>
> The whitespace between 'int' and 'vm_guest' in the second line seems
> wrong (extra space?).
Yep, fixed.
> For vmware_hvcall() in x86/include/vmware.h, are you sure the inline
> assembly is correct? Have you tried the detection on a VMware VM?
> VMware's documentation specifies the arguments in a different
> order[0], and at Isilon when we tried the port-based detection in a
> slightly older revision of CURRENT, it didn't work (IIRC).
I don't have VMware handy, but it is a simple copy and paste of existing
code in tsc.c.
--
John Baldwin
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