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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-08 11:46:48 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-08 11:46:48 -0700
commit752240e74d650faa24425adc523f1308973ea51c (patch)
tree47657b7d468352424f844156883302653252f70e /Documentation
parentb8cb642af98216fe6eeca1525345b8a5c9d7c9a4 (diff)
parent626d7508664c4bc8e67f496da4387ecd0c410b8c (diff)
Merge tag 'for-linus-4.3-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen updates from David Vrabel: "Xen features and fixes for 4.3: - Convert xen-blkfront to the multiqueue API - [arm] Support binding event channels to different VCPUs. - [x86] Support > 512 GiB in a PV guests (off by default as such a guest cannot be migrated with the current toolstack). - [x86] PMU support for PV dom0 (limited support for using perf with Xen and other guests)" * tag 'for-linus-4.3-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (33 commits) xen: switch extra memory accounting to use pfns xen: limit memory to architectural maximum xen: avoid another early crash of memory limited dom0 xen: avoid early crash of memory limited dom0 arm/xen: Remove helpers which are PV specific xen/x86: Don't try to set PCE bit in CR4 xen/PMU: PMU emulation code xen/PMU: Intercept PMU-related MSR and APIC accesses xen/PMU: Describe vendor-specific PMU registers xen/PMU: Initialization code for Xen PMU xen/PMU: Sysfs interface for setting Xen PMU mode xen: xensyms support xen: remove no longer needed p2m.h xen: allow more than 512 GB of RAM for 64 bit pv-domains xen: move p2m list if conflicting with e820 map xen: add explicit memblock_reserve() calls for special pages mm: provide early_memremap_ro to establish read-only mapping xen: check for initrd conflicting with e820 map xen: check pre-allocated page tables for conflict with memory map xen: check for kernel memory conflicting with memory layout ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor-pmu23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt7
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor-pmu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor-pmu
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..224faa105e18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor-pmu
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+What: /sys/hypervisor/pmu/pmu_mode
+Date: August 2015
+KernelVersion: 4.3
+Contact: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
+Description:
+ Describes mode that Xen's performance-monitoring unit (PMU)
+ uses. Accepted values are
+ "off" -- PMU is disabled
+ "self" -- The guest can profile itself
+ "hv" -- The guest can profile itself and, if it is
+ privileged (e.g. dom0), the hypervisor
+ "all" -- The guest can profile itself, the hypervisor
+ and all other guests. Only available to
+ privileged guests.
+
+What: /sys/hypervisor/pmu/pmu_features
+Date: August 2015
+KernelVersion: 4.3
+Contact: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
+Description:
+ Describes Xen PMU features (as an integer). A set bit indicates
+ that the corresponding feature is enabled. See
+ include/xen/interface/xenpmu.h for available features
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index f0c950598582..22a4b687ea5b 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4106,6 +4106,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
+ xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
+ Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
+ to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
+ crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
+ save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
+ domains.
+
xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
Unplug Xen emulated devices
Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]