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 16:47:39 +0000 (09:47 -0700)
commit32d10678d42f807310e752410696117b4a3185e7
treeb1a03286ecbb92e85c600ac04ac12f18e3659b33
parent12f2f04e0376453bab82a2d6aa51cb94f4f65d33
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