Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:47:07 -0700
From: Tim Mann <mann@vmware.com>
To: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86/vmware: Add basic paravirt ops support
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I believe our trademark guidelines say we aren't supposed to use VMware as a
noun to mean a product, only to mean the company.  So we can say "running on
VMware ESXi" or "running in a VMware virtual machine", but "running on VMware"
is wrong.  There is supposedly some good legal reason for this related to
keeping our trademark.

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 22:26:00 -0700, Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
wrote:
> Add basic paravirt support:
>  1. set pv_info.name to "VMware" to have proper boot log message
> 	Booting paravirtualized kernel on VMware
>     instead of "... on bare hardware"
>  2. set pv_cpu_ops.io_delay() to empty function - paravirt_nop() to
>     avoid vm-exits on IO delays.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
> Acked-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
> index 480790f..e3fb320 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
> @@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ static unsigned long vmware_get_tsc_khz(void)
>  	return vmware_tsc_khz;
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
> +static void __init vmware_paravirt_ops_setup(void)
> +{
> +	pv_info.name = "VMware";
> +	pv_cpu_ops.io_delay = paravirt_nop;
> +}
> +#else
> +#define vmware_paravirt_ops_setup() do {} while (0)
> +#endif
> +
>  static void __init vmware_platform_setup(void)
>  {
>  	uint32_t eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
> @@ -94,6 +104,8 @@ static void __init vmware_platform_setup(void)
>  	} else {
>  		pr_warn("Failed to get TSC freq from the hypervisor\n");
>  	}
> +
> +	vmware_paravirt_ops_setup();
>  }
>  
>  /*


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