When running turbostat on a virtual machine the error
turbostat: msr 0 offset 0xe2 read failed: Input/output error
is output to the user.
/dev/msr and perf do not work on a virtual machine. turbostat is
dependent on that support so turbostat does not work either.
A common way of determining if the system is a virtual machine is to
search /proc/cpuinfo flags entry for "hypervisor". turbostat must output
a proper error message when found.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <pra...@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.br...@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <l...@kernel.org>
---
tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
index 0dafba2c1e7d..ca1ea68bc4e8 100644
--- a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
+++ b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
@@ -5088,6 +5088,34 @@ void cmdline(int argc, char **argv)
}
}
+int has_hypervisor(void)
+{
+ FILE *cpuinfo;
+ char *flags, *hypervisor;
+ char *buffer;
+
+ /* On VMs /proc/cpuinfo contains a "flags" entry for hypervisor */
+ cpuinfo = fopen_or_die("/proc/cpuinfo", "ro");
+
+ buffer = malloc(4096);
+ if (!buffer)
+ err(-ENOMEM, "buffer malloc fail");
+
+ fread(buffer, 1024, 1, cpuinfo);
+
+ flags = strstr(buffer, "flags");
+ rewind(cpuinfo);
+ fseek(cpuinfo, flags - buffer, SEEK_SET);
+ fgets(buffer, 4096, cpuinfo);
+ fclose(cpuinfo);
+
+ hypervisor = strstr(buffer, "hypervisor");
+
+ free(buffer);
+
+ return !!hypervisor;
+}
+
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
outf = stderr;
@@ -5097,6 +5125,12 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
if (!quiet)
print_version();
+ if (has_hypervisor()) {
+ fprintf(outf,
+ "turbostat is not supported on virtual machines.\n");
+ return -ENXIO;
+ }
+
probe_sysfs();
turbostat_init();
--
1.8.5.5
