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Message-ID: <tip-b176862fca8625b0a8bee207bca9b611413e5e24@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Sat, 20 Feb 2016 03:42:03 -0800
From:	tip-bot for Borislav Petkov <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, peterz@...radead.org, bp@...e.de,
	luto@...capital.net, mcgrof@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org
Subject: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/ptdump: Remove paravirt_enabled()

Commit-ID:  b176862fca8625b0a8bee207bca9b611413e5e24
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/b176862fca8625b0a8bee207bca9b611413e5e24
Author:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
AuthorDate: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:00:41 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:25:45 +0100

x86/mm/ptdump: Remove paravirt_enabled()

is_hypervisor_range() can simply check if the PGD index is
within ffff800000000000 - ffff87ffffffffff which is the range
reserved for a hypervisor. That range is practically an ABI, see
Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt.

Tested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com> # Under Xen, as PV guest
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455825641-19585-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c b/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
index 4a6f1d9..99bfb19 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
@@ -358,20 +358,19 @@ static void walk_pud_level(struct seq_file *m, struct pg_state *st, pgd_t addr,
 #define pgd_none(a)  pud_none(__pud(pgd_val(a)))
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 static inline bool is_hypervisor_range(int idx)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 	/*
 	 * ffff800000000000 - ffff87ffffffffff is reserved for
 	 * the hypervisor.
 	 */
-	return paravirt_enabled() &&
-		(idx >= pgd_index(__PAGE_OFFSET) - 16) &&
-		(idx < pgd_index(__PAGE_OFFSET));
-}
+	return	(idx >= pgd_index(__PAGE_OFFSET) - 16) &&
+		(idx <  pgd_index(__PAGE_OFFSET));
 #else
-static inline bool is_hypervisor_range(int idx) { return false; }
+	return false;
 #endif
+}
 
 static void ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core(struct seq_file *m, pgd_t *pgd,
 				       bool checkwx)