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xen/acpi: allow xen-acpi-processor driver to load on Xen 4.7
authorJan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Fri, 8 Jul 2016 12:15:07 +0000 (06:15 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:55:51 +0000 (09:55 -0700)
commitab63df805db0c5d32e1e87333c9fecc6a9748cba
treeeaf71349d2d78eac5b50f12e0cd8ca6909845bae
parent599fe1409085059ba12a2c3897c853be9fa9e7cf
xen/acpi: allow xen-acpi-processor driver to load on Xen 4.7

commit 6f2d9d99213514360034c6d52d2c3919290b3504 upstream.

As of Xen 4.7 PV CPUID doesn't expose either of CPUID[1].ECX[7] and
CPUID[0x80000007].EDX[7] anymore, causing the driver to fail to load on
both Intel and AMD systems. Doing any kind of hardware capability
checks in the driver as a prerequisite was wrong anyway: With the
hypervisor being in charge, all such checking should be done by it. If
ACPI data gets uploaded despite some missing capability, the hypervisor
is free to ignore part or all of that data.

Ditch the entire check_prereq() function, and do the only valid check
(xen_initial_domain()) in the caller in its place.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/xen/xen-acpi-processor.c