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Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896

From Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896
Date 2016-12-16 08:30 +0100
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On 15/12/16 18:36, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:27:49PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> It will probably fix it but I don't think we want this: it's a
>> build-time solution. Most kernels have XEN on even though they are
>> booted bare-metal.
> 
> Lemme tell you want I want: a way to detect I'm running on xen. Does
> CPUID(4) work really early, at load_ucode_bsp() time?
> 
> IOW, can I use some of the functionality hypervisor_cpuid_base() uses to
> detect xen and stop loading any further?

What you really need is to avoid being called on a Xen pv guest. And
this is easy by using xen_domain().

Not trying to load ucode in _any_ guest is an optimization only.

The attached patch works for me in dom0, bare metal and Xen HVM guest.


Juergen

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Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2016-12-15 17:20 +0100
  Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-15 17:50 +0100
    Re: [Xen-devel] Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> - 2016-12-15 18:00 +0100
      Re: [Xen-devel] Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> - 2016-12-15 18:10 +0100
        Re: [Xen-devel] Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-15 18:40 +0100
    Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-12-15 18:00 +0100
      Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-15 18:20 +0100
        Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-12-15 18:30 +0100
          Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-15 18:40 +0100
            Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-12-15 20:10 +0100
              Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-12-15 20:40 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-15 21:10 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-12-16 00:00 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-16 00:10 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-12-16 05:40 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-16 10:10 +0100
                Re: [Xen-devel] Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> - 2016-12-16 10:40 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2016-12-16 05:40 +0100
              Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-15 20:50 +0100
            Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2016-12-16 08:30 +0100
              Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-16 10:10 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2016-12-16 10:30 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-16 10:50 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2016-12-16 11:10 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-16 12:10 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2016-12-16 13:20 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-16 13:50 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-16 14:10 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-12-16 15:40 +0100
                Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-12-16 16:20 +0100
    Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2016-12-15 18:30 +0100

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