On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 02:33:35PM +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> The current logic in the Intel PMC driver will forcefully attach it
> when detecting any CPU on the intel_pmc_core_platform_ids array,
> even if the matching ACPI device is not present.
>
> There's no checking in pmc_core_probe() to assert that the PMC device
> is present, and hence on virtualized environments the PMC device
> probes successfully, even if the underlying registers are not present.
> Previous to 21ae43570940 the driver would check for the presence of a
> specific PCI device, and that prevented the driver from attaching when
> running virtualized.
>
> Fix by only forcefully attaching the PMC device when not running
> virtualized. Note that virtualized platforms can still get the device
> to load if the appropriate ACPI device is present on the tables
> provided to the VM.
>
> Make an exception for the Xen initial domain, which does have full
> hardware access, and hence can attach to the PMC if present.
>
> Fixes: 21ae43570940 ('platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Substitute PCI with CPUID
> enumeration')
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: David E. Box <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rajneesh Bhardwaj <[email protected]>
> Cc: David E Box <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mark Gross <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
> Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <[email protected]>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
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> + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR) &&
> + !xen_initial_domain())
One line? It's 81 character only and we have no strong 80 here, IIRC.
> + return -ENODEV;
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
