x86, vmware: Remove deprecated VMI kernel support

With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies
from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these
techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform.
These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the
performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware
expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of
years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this
feature from the hypervisor.

Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels
still work fine on VMware's platform.
Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are,
Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence
releases for these products will continue supporting VMI.

For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this,
http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html

This feature removal was scheduled for 2.6.37 back in September 2009.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <1282600151.19396.22.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 98 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vmi_time.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vmi_time.h
deleted file mode 100644
index c6e0bee93e3c..000000000000
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vmi_time.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * VMI Time wrappers
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2006, VMware, Inc.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, GOOD TITLE or
- * NON INFRINGEMENT.  See the GNU General Public License for more
- * details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
- *
- * Send feedback to dhecht@vmware.com
- *
- */
-
-#ifndef _ASM_X86_VMI_TIME_H
-#define _ASM_X86_VMI_TIME_H
-
-/*
- * Raw VMI call indices for timer functions
- */
-#define VMI_CALL_GetCycleFrequency	66
-#define VMI_CALL_GetCycleCounter	67
-#define VMI_CALL_SetAlarm		68
-#define VMI_CALL_CancelAlarm		69
-#define VMI_CALL_GetWallclockTime	70
-#define VMI_CALL_WallclockUpdated	71
-
-/* Cached VMI timer operations */
-extern struct vmi_timer_ops {
-	u64 (*get_cycle_frequency)(void);
-	u64 (*get_cycle_counter)(int);
-	u64 (*get_wallclock)(void);
-	int (*wallclock_updated)(void);
-	void (*set_alarm)(u32 flags, u64 expiry, u64 period);
-	void (*cancel_alarm)(u32 flags);
-} vmi_timer_ops;
-
-/* Prototypes */
-extern void __init vmi_time_init(void);
-extern unsigned long vmi_get_wallclock(void);
-extern int vmi_set_wallclock(unsigned long now);
-extern unsigned long long vmi_sched_clock(void);
-extern unsigned long vmi_tsc_khz(void);
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
-extern void __devinit vmi_time_bsp_init(void);
-extern void __devinit vmi_time_ap_init(void);
-#endif
-
-/*
- * When run under a hypervisor, a vcpu is always in one of three states:
- * running, halted, or ready.  The vcpu is in the 'running' state if it
- * is executing.  When the vcpu executes the halt interface, the vcpu
- * enters the 'halted' state and remains halted until there is some work
- * pending for the vcpu (e.g. an alarm expires, host I/O completes on
- * behalf of virtual I/O).  At this point, the vcpu enters the 'ready'
- * state (waiting for the hypervisor to reschedule it).  Finally, at any
- * time when the vcpu is not in the 'running' state nor the 'halted'
- * state, it is in the 'ready' state.
- *
- * Real time is advances while the vcpu is 'running', 'ready', or
- * 'halted'.  Stolen time is the time in which the vcpu is in the
- * 'ready' state.  Available time is the remaining time -- the vcpu is
- * either 'running' or 'halted'.
- *
- * All three views of time are accessible through the VMI cycle
- * counters.
- */
-
-/* The cycle counters. */
-#define VMI_CYCLES_REAL         0
-#define VMI_CYCLES_AVAILABLE    1
-#define VMI_CYCLES_STOLEN       2
-
-/* The alarm interface 'flags' bits */
-#define VMI_ALARM_COUNTERS      2
-
-#define VMI_ALARM_COUNTER_MASK  0x000000ff
-
-#define VMI_ALARM_WIRED_IRQ0    0x00000000
-#define VMI_ALARM_WIRED_LVTT    0x00010000
-
-#define VMI_ALARM_IS_ONESHOT    0x00000000
-#define VMI_ALARM_IS_PERIODIC   0x00000100
-
-#define CONFIG_VMI_ALARM_HZ	100
-
-#endif /* _ASM_X86_VMI_TIME_H */