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authorZhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>2019-07-11 20:02:09 +0800
committerJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2019-07-17 08:09:58 +0200
commit30978346372e5c43a652cfbd4533c6bd5427c33b (patch)
tree0fb7e6a976d391af1469f7c4e210bef06e7ef5cb /Documentation
parent1b37683cda0217305837fd1b79e7c57104d4f983 (diff)
x86: Add "nopv" parameter to disable PV extensions
In virtualization environment, PV extensions (drivers, interrupts, timers, etc) are enabled in the majority of use cases which is the best option. However, in some cases (kexec not fully working, benchmarking) we want to disable PV extensions. We have "xen_nopv" for that purpose but only for XEN. For a consistent admin experience a common command line parameter "nopv" set across all PV guest implementations is a better choice. There are guest types which just won't work without PV extensions, like Xen PV, Xen PVH and jailhouse. add a "ignore_nopv" member to struct hypervisor_x86 set to true for those guest types and call the detect functions only if nopv is false or ignore_nopv is true. Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 99db4975e6b5..936e8e7e6474 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -5257,6 +5257,11 @@
improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
more timer interrupts.
+ nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
+ Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
+ as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
+ XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
+
xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Format:
<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]