On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 04:16:30PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: [...] > > /* > > * 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; > > Eventually this is not going to be an x86 only thing I believe? I hope so. :-) > > > + > > #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 05ef1f4550cb..f7633e1e4c82 100644 > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c > > @@ -237,6 +237,22 @@ 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). > > + * > > + * For now, use the privilege flag as the indicator for running as > > + * root. > > + */ > > + if (cpuid_ebx(HYPERV_CPUID_FEATURES) & HV_CPU_MANAGEMENT) { > > We may want to cache cpuid_ebx(HYPERV_CPUID_FEATURES) somewhere but we > already had a discussion regading naming for these caches and decided to > wait until TLFS for ARM is out so we don't need to rename again. Exactly. Wei.