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  1. 09 2月, 2016 1 次提交
  3. 06 10月, 2015 1 次提交
    • K
      perf/x86: Add Intel cstate PMUs support · 7ce1346a
      由 Kan Liang 提交于 
      This patch adds new PMUs to support cstate related free running
(read-only) counters. These counters may be used simultaneously by other
tools, such as turbostat. However, it still make sense to implement them
in perf. Because we can conveniently collect them together with other
events, and allow to use them from tools without special MSR access
code.

These counters include CORE_C*_RESIDENCY and PKG_C*_RESIDENCY.
According to counters' scope and category, two PMUs are registered with
the perf_event core subsystem.

 - 'cstate_core': The counter is available for each physical core. The
                  counters include CORE_C*_RESIDENCY.

 - 'cstate_pkg':  The counter is available for each physical package. The
                  counters include PKG_C*_RESIDENCY.

The events are exposed in sysfs for use by perf stat and other tools.
The files are:

  /sys/devices/cstate_core/events/c*-residency
  /sys/devices/cstate_pkg/events/c*-residency

These events only support system-wide mode counting.
The /sys/devices/cstate_*/cpumask file can be used by tools to figure
out which CPUs to monitor by default.

The PMU type (attr->type) is dynamically allocated and is available from
/sys/devices/core_misc/type and /sys/device/cstate_*/type.

Sampling is not supported.

Here is an example.

 - To caculate the fraction of time when the core is running in C6 state
   CORE_C6_time% = CORE_C6_RESIDENCY / TSC

 # perf stat -x, -e"cstate_core/c6-residency/,msr/tsc/" -C0 -- taskset -c 0 sleep 5

   11838820015,,cstate_core/c6-residency/,5175919658,100.00
   11877130740,,msr/tsc/,5175922010,100.00

 For sleep, 99.7% of time we ran in C6 state.

 # perf stat -x, -e"cstate_core/c6-residency/,msr/tsc/" -C0 -- taskset -c 0 busyloop

   1253316,,cstate_core/c6-residency/,4360969154,100.00
   10012635248,,msr/tsc/,4360972366,100.00

 For busyloop, 0.01% of time we ran in C6 state.
Signed-off-by: NKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443443404-8581-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      7ce1346a
  5. 04 8月, 2015 1 次提交
  7. 02 4月, 2015 2 次提交
    • A
      perf/x86/intel/bts: Add BTS PMU driver · 8062382c
      由 Alexander Shishkin 提交于 
      Add support for Branch Trace Store (BTS) via kernel perf event infrastructure.
The difference with the existing implementation of BTS support is that this
one is a separate PMU that exports events' trace buffers to userspace by means
of AUX area of the perf buffer, which is zero-copy mapped into userspace.

The immediate benefit is that the buffer size can be much bigger, resulting in
fewer interrupts and no kernel side copying is involved and little to no trace
data loss. Also, kernel code can be traced with this driver.

The old way of collecting BTS traces still works.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422614435-114702-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      8062382c
    • A
      perf/x86/intel/pt: Add Intel PT PMU driver · 52ca9ced
      由 Alexander Shishkin 提交于 
      Add support for Intel Processor Trace (PT) to kernel's perf events.
PT is an extension of Intel Architecture that collects information about
software execuction such as control flow, execution modes and timings and
formats it into highly compressed binary packets. Even being compressed,
these packets are generated at hundreds of megabytes per second per core,
which makes it impractical to decode them on the fly in the kernel.

This driver exports trace data by through AUX space in the perf ring
buffer, which is zero-copy mapped into userspace for faster data retrieval.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422614392-114498-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      52ca9ced
  9. 23 3月, 2015 1 次提交
  11. 23 12月, 2014 1 次提交
  13. 28 10月, 2014 1 次提交
  15. 18 8月, 2014 2 次提交
    • J
      x86: Support compiling out human-friendly processor feature names · 9def39be
      由 Josh Triplett 提交于 
      The table mapping CPUID bits to human-readable strings takes up a
non-trivial amount of space, and only exists to support /proc/cpuinfo
and a couple of kernel messages.  Since programs depend on the format of
/proc/cpuinfo, force inclusion of the table when building with /proc
support; otherwise, support omitting that table to save space, in which
case the kernel messages will print features numerically instead.

In addition to saving 1408 bytes out of vmlinux, this also saves 1373
bytes out of the uncompressed setup code, which contributes directly to
the size of bzImage.
Signed-off-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      9def39be
    • J
      x86: Drop support for /proc files when !CONFIG_PROC_FS · 39f838e0
      由 Josh Triplett 提交于 
      arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c only exists to support files in /proc; omit that
file when compiling without CONFIG_PROC_FS.

Saves 645 additional bytes on 32-bit x86 when !CONFIG_PROC_FS:

add/remove: 0/5 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 0/-645 (-645)
function                                     old     new   delta
c_stop                                         1       -      -1
c_next                                        11       -     -11
cpuinfo_op                                    16       -     -16
c_start                                       24       -     -24
show_cpuinfo                                 593       -    -593
Signed-off-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      39f838e0
  17. 13 8月, 2014 3 次提交
  19. 14 1月, 2014 1 次提交
  21. 27 11月, 2013 1 次提交
    • S
      perf/x86: Add Intel RAPL PMU support · 4788e5b4
      由 Stephane Eranian 提交于 
      This patch adds a new uncore PMU to expose the Intel
RAPL energy consumption counters. Up to 3 counters,
each counting a particular RAPL event are exposed.

The RAPL counters are available on Intel SandyBridge,
IvyBridge, Haswell. The server skus add a 3rd counter.

The following events are available and exposed in sysfs:

  - power/energy-cores: power consumption of all cores on socket
  - power/energy-pkg: power consumption of all cores + LLc cache
  - power/energy-dram: power consumption of DRAM (servers only)

For each event both the unit (Joules) and scale (2^-32 J)
is exposed in sysfs for use by perf stat and other tools.
The files are:

	/sys/devices/power/events/energy-*.unit
	/sys/devices/power/events/energy-*.scale

The RAPL PMU is uncore by nature and is implemented such
that it only works in system-wide mode. Measuring only
one CPU per socket is sufficient. The /sys/devices/power/cpumask
file can be used by tools to figure out which CPUs to monitor
by default. For instance, on a 2-socket system, 2 CPUs
(one on each socket) will be shown.

All the counters measure in the same unit (exposed via sysfs).
The perf_events API exposes all RAPL counters as 64-bit integers
counting in unit of 1/2^32 Joules (about 0.23 nJ). User level tools
must convert the counts by multiplying them by 2^-32 to obtain
Joules. The reason for this is that the kernel avoids
doing floating point math whenever possible because it is
expensive (user floating-point state must be saved). The method
used avoids kernel floating-point usage. There is no loss of
precision. Thanks to PeterZ for suggesting this approach.

To convert the raw count in Watt:
   W = C * 2.3 / (1e10 * time)
or ldexp(C, -32).

RAPL PMU is a new standalone PMU which registers with the
perf_event core subsystem. The PMU type (attr->type) is
dynamically allocated and is available from /sys/device/power/type.

Sampling is not supported by the RAPL PMU. There is no
privilege level filtering either.
Signed-off-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: NMaria Dimakopoulou <maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384275531-10892-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      4788e5b4
  23. 19 6月, 2013 1 次提交
  25. 30 4月, 2013 1 次提交
  27. 21 4月, 2013 1 次提交
  29. 05 3月, 2013 1 次提交
  31. 04 10月, 2012 1 次提交
  33. 24 7月, 2012 1 次提交
  35. 18 6月, 2012 1 次提交
  37. 27 1月, 2012 1 次提交
    • A
      Add driver auto probing for x86 features v4 · 644e9cbb
      由 Andi Kleen 提交于 
      There's a growing number of drivers that support a specific x86 feature
or CPU.  Currently loading these drivers currently on a generic
distribution requires various driver specific hacks and it often
doesn't work.

This patch adds auto probing for drivers based on the x86 cpuid
information, in particular based on vendor/family/model number
and also based on CPUID feature bits.

For example a common issue is not loading the SSE 4.2 accelerated
CRC module: this can significantly lower the performance of BTRFS
which relies on fast CRC.

Another issue is loading the right CPUFREQ driver for the current CPU.
Currently distributions often try all all possible driver until
one sticks, which is not really a good way to do this.

It works with existing udev without any changes. The code
exports the x86 information as a generic string in sysfs
that can be matched by udev's pattern matching.

This scheme does not support numeric ranges, so if you want to
handle e.g. ranges of model numbers they have to be encoded
in ASCII or simply all models or families listed. Fixing
that would require changing udev.

Another issue is that udev will happily load all drivers that match,
there is currently no nice way to stop a specific driver from
being loaded if it's not needed (e.g. if you don't need fast CRC)
But there are not that many cpu specific drivers around and they're
all not that bloated, so this isn't a particularly serious issue.

Originally this patch added the modalias to the normal cpu
sysdevs. However sysdevs don't have all the infrastructure
needed for udev, so it couldn't really autoload drivers.
This patch instead adds the CPU modaliases to the cpuid devices,
which are real devices with full support for udev. This implies
that the cpuid driver has to be loaded to use this.

This patch just adds infrastructure, some driver conversions
in followups.

Thanks to Kay for helping with some sysfs magic.

v2: Constifcation, some updates
v4: (trenn@suse.de):
    - Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc to terminate modalias buffer
    - Use uppercase hex values to match correctly against hex values containing
      letters

Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jen Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      644e9cbb
  39. 10 10月, 2011 1 次提交
  41. 26 9月, 2011 1 次提交
  43. 01 8月, 2011 1 次提交
    • H
      x86, random: Verify RDRAND functionality and allow it to be disabled · 49d859d7
      由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于 
      If the CPU declares that RDRAND is available, go through a guranteed
reseed sequence, and make sure that it is actually working (producing
data.)   If it does not, disable the CPU feature flag.

Allow RDRAND to be disabled on the command line (as opposed to at
compile time) for a user who has special requirements with regards to
random numbers.
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      49d859d7
  45. 20 5月, 2011 1 次提交
  47. 29 7月, 2010 1 次提交
  49. 20 7月, 2010 1 次提交
    • H
      x86, cpu: Split addon_cpuid_features.c · 2decb194
      由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于 
      addon_cpuid_features.c contains exactly two almost completely
unrelated functions, plus has a long and very generic name.  Split it
into two files, scattered.c for the scattered feature flags, and
topology.c for the topology information.
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>
      2decb194
  51. 07 5月, 2010 1 次提交
    • K
      x86: Detect running on a Microsoft HyperV system · a2a47c6c
      由 Ky Srinivasan 提交于 
      This patch integrates HyperV detection within the framework currently
used by VmWare. With this patch, we can avoid having to replicate the
HyperV detection code in each of the Microsoft HyperV drivers.

Reworked and tweaked by Greg K-H to build properly.
Signed-off-by: NK. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100506190841.GA1605@kroah.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      a2a47c6c
  53. 24 1月, 2010 1 次提交
    • H
      x86: Remove "x86 CPU features in debugfs" (CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG) · b1600918
      由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于 
      CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG, which provides some parsed versions of the x86
CPU configuration via debugfs, has caused boot failures on real
hardware.  The value of this feature has been marginal at best, as all
this information is already available to userspace via generic
interfaces.

Causes crashes that have not been fixed + minimal utility -> remove.

See the referenced LKML thread for more information.
Reported-by: NOzan Çağlayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001221755320.13231@localhost.localdomain>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      b1600918
  55. 23 11月, 2009 1 次提交
  57. 21 9月, 2009 1 次提交
    • I
      perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events · cdd6c482
      由 Ingo Molnar 提交于 
      Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )
Suggested-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cdd6c482
  59. 15 9月, 2009 1 次提交
    • P
      x86: sched: Provide arch implementations using aperf/mperf · 47fe38fc
      由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于 
      APERF/MPERF support for cpu_power.

APERF/MPERF is arch defined to be a relative scale of work capacity
per logical cpu, this is assumed to include SMT and Turbo mode.

APERF/MPERF are specified to both reset to 0 when either counter
wraps, which is highly inconvenient, since that'll give a blimp
when that happens. The manual specifies writing 0 to the counters
after each read, but that's 1) too expensive, and 2) destroys the
possibility of sharing these counters with other users, so we live
with the blimp - the other existing user does too.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      47fe38fc
  61. 20 8月, 2009 1 次提交
  63. 14 3月, 2009 1 次提交
  65. 11 3月, 2009 1 次提交
  67. 25 12月, 2008 1 次提交
    • F
      tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3 · 0ca59dd9
      由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于 
      Impact: fix a crash/hard-reboot on certain configs while enabling cpu runtime

On some archs, the boot of a secondary cpu can have an early fragile state.
On x86-64, the pda is not initialized on the first stage of a cpu boot but
it is needed to get the cpu number and the current task pointer. This data
is needed during tracing. As they were dereferenced at this stage, we got a
crash while tracing a cpu being enabled at runtime.

Some other archs like ia64 can have such kind of issue too.

Changes on v2:

We dropped the previous solution of a per-arch called function to guess the
current state of a cpu. That could slow down the tracing.

This patch removes the -pg flag on arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c where
the low level cpu boot functions exist, on start_secondary() and a helper
function used at this stage.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0ca59dd9
  69. 08 12月, 2008 1 次提交
    • I
      performance counters: x86 support · 241771ef
      由 Ingo Molnar 提交于 
      Implement performance counters for x86 Intel CPUs.

It's simplified right now: the PERFMON CPU feature is assumed,
which is available in Core2 and later Intel CPUs.

The design is flexible to be extended to more CPU types as well.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      241771ef
  71. 02 11月, 2008 1 次提交
    • A
      x86: Hypervisor detection and get tsc_freq from hypervisor · 88b094fb
      由 Alok Kataria 提交于 
      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: NAlok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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