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authorJinank Jain <jinankjain@linux.microsoft.com>2023-01-02 07:12:51 +0000
committerWei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>2023-01-12 15:23:26 +0000
commitc4bdf94f97c86bdee8bacc87f8f85dc67866c928 (patch)
tree0fb80013913a5eb1966a31e39e7771120cdcb7e9 /drivers/hv
parentb7bfaa761d760e72a969d116517eaa12e404c262 (diff)
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x86/hyperv: Add support for detecting nested hypervisor
Detect if Linux is running as a nested hypervisor in the root partition for Microsoft Hypervisor, using flags provided by MSHV. Expose a new variable hv_nested that is used later for decisions specific to the nested use case. Signed-off-by: Jinank Jain <jinankjain@linux.microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8e3e7112806e81d2292a66a56fe547162754ecea.1672639707.git.jinankjain@linux.microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hv')
-rw-r--r--drivers/hv/hv_common.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_common.c b/drivers/hv/hv_common.c
index ae68298c0dca..52a6f89ccdbd 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_common.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_common.c
@@ -25,17 +25,20 @@
#include <asm/mshyperv.h>
/*
- * hv_root_partition and ms_hyperv are defined here with other Hyper-V
- * specific globals so they are shared across all architectures and are
+ * hv_root_partition, ms_hyperv and hv_nested are defined here with other
+ * Hyper-V specific globals so they are shared across all architectures and are
* built only when CONFIG_HYPERV is defined. But on x86,
* ms_hyperv_init_platform() is built even when CONFIG_HYPERV is not
- * defined, and it uses these two variables. So mark them as __weak
+ * defined, and it uses these three variables. So mark them as __weak
* here, allowing for an overriding definition in the module containing
* ms_hyperv_init_platform().
*/
bool __weak hv_root_partition;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hv_root_partition);
+bool __weak hv_nested;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hv_nested);
+
struct ms_hyperv_info __weak ms_hyperv;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ms_hyperv);