x86/virt: Add enum for hypervisors to replace x86_hyper

The x86_hyper pointer is only used for checking whether a virtual
device is supporting the hypervisor the system is running on.

Use an enum for that purpose instead and drop the x86_hyper pointer.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Cc: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: haiyangz@microsoft.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kys@microsoft.com
Cc: linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: moltmann@vmware.com
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: pv-drivers@vmware.com
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com
Cc: sthemmin@microsoft.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109132739.23465-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
index 0eca7239a7aa..1b0a5abcd8ae 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@
 /*
  * x86 hypervisor information
  */
+
+enum x86_hypervisor_type {
+	X86_HYPER_NATIVE = 0,
+	X86_HYPER_VMWARE,
+	X86_HYPER_MS_HYPERV,
+	X86_HYPER_XEN_PV,
+	X86_HYPER_XEN_HVM,
+	X86_HYPER_KVM,
+};
+
 struct hypervisor_x86 {
 	/* Hypervisor name */
 	const char	*name;
@@ -36,6 +46,9 @@ struct hypervisor_x86 {
 	/* Detection routine */
 	uint32_t	(*detect)(void);
 
+	/* Hypervisor type */
+	enum x86_hypervisor_type type;
+
 	/* init time callbacks */
 	struct x86_hyper_init init;
 
@@ -43,15 +56,7 @@ struct hypervisor_x86 {
 	struct x86_hyper_runtime runtime;
 };
 
-extern const struct hypervisor_x86 *x86_hyper;
-
-/* Recognized hypervisors */
-extern const struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_vmware;
-extern const struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_ms_hyperv;
-extern const struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_xen_pv;
-extern const struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_xen_hvm;
-extern const struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_kvm;
-
+extern enum x86_hypervisor_type x86_hyper_type;
 extern void init_hypervisor_platform(void);
 #else
 static inline void init_hypervisor_platform(void) { }