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Date:   Wed, 20 Jan 2021 11:03:18 -0500
From:   Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
To:     Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux on Hyper-V List <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
        Vineeth Pillai <viremana@...ux.microsoft.com>,
        Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@...rosoft.com>,
        Nuno Das Neves <nunodasneves@...ux.microsoft.com>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/16] x86/hyperv: detect if Linux is the root partition

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 7:01 AM Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> For now we can use the privilege flag to check. Stash the value to be
> used later.
>
> Put in a bunch of defines for future use when we want to have more
> fine-grained detection.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
> ---
> v3: move hv_root_partition to mshyperv.c
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h | 10 ++++++++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/mshyperv.h    |  2 ++
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c     | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h
> index 6bf42aed387e..204010350604 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
>  #define HYPERV_CPUID_FEATURES                  0x40000003
>  #define HYPERV_CPUID_ENLIGHTMENT_INFO          0x40000004
>  #define HYPERV_CPUID_IMPLEMENT_LIMITS          0x40000005
> +#define HYPERV_CPUID_CPU_MANAGEMENT_FEATURES   0x40000007
>  #define HYPERV_CPUID_NESTED_FEATURES           0x4000000A
>
>  #define HYPERV_CPUID_VIRT_STACK_INTERFACE      0x40000081
> @@ -110,6 +111,15 @@
>  /* Recommend using enlightened VMCS */
>  #define HV_X64_ENLIGHTENED_VMCS_RECOMMENDED            BIT(14)
>
> +/*
> + * CPU management features identification.
> + * These are HYPERV_CPUID_CPU_MANAGEMENT_FEATURES.EAX bits.
> + */
> +#define HV_X64_START_LOGICAL_PROCESSOR                 BIT(0)
> +#define HV_X64_CREATE_ROOT_VIRTUAL_PROCESSOR           BIT(1)
> +#define HV_X64_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_SYNC                        BIT(2)
> +#define HV_X64_RESERVED_IDENTITY_BIT                   BIT(31)
> +
>  /*
>   * Virtual processor will never share a physical core with another virtual
>   * processor, except for virtual processors that are reported as sibling SMT
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mshyperv.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mshyperv.h
> index ffc289992d1b..ac2b0d110f03 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mshyperv.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mshyperv.h
> @@ -237,6 +237,8 @@ int hyperv_fill_flush_guest_mapping_list(
>                 struct hv_guest_mapping_flush_list *flush,
>                 u64 start_gfn, u64 end_gfn);
>
> +extern bool hv_root_partition;
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>  void hv_apic_init(void);
>  void __init hv_init_spinlocks(void);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
> index f628e3dc150f..c376d191a260 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
> @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
>  #include <asm/nmi.h>
>  #include <clocksource/hyperv_timer.h>
>
> +/* Is Linux running as the root partition? */
> +bool hv_root_partition;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hv_root_partition);
> +
>  struct ms_hyperv_info ms_hyperv;
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ms_hyperv);
>
> @@ -237,6 +241,22 @@ static void __init ms_hyperv_init_platform(void)
>         pr_debug("Hyper-V: max %u virtual processors, %u logical processors\n",
>                  ms_hyperv.max_vp_index, ms_hyperv.max_lp_index);
>
> +       /*
> +        * Check CPU management privilege.
> +        *
> +        * To mirror what Windows does we should extract CPU management
> +        * features and use the ReservedIdentityBit to detect if Linux is the
> +        * root partition. But that requires negotiating CPU management
> +        * interface (a process to be finalized).

Is this comment relevant? Do we have to mirror what Windows does?

> +        *
> +        * For now, use the privilege flag as the indicator for running as
> +        * root.
> +        */
> +       if (cpuid_ebx(HYPERV_CPUID_FEATURES) & HV_CPU_MANAGEMENT) {
> +               hv_root_partition = true;
> +               pr_info("Hyper-V: running as root partition\n");
> +       }
> +

Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>

>         /*
>          * Extract host information.
>          */
> --
> 2.20.1
>