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xen: Mark "xen_nopvspin" parameter obsolete 

Map "xen_nopvspin" to "nopvspin", fix stale description of "xen_nopvspin"
as we use qspinlock now.

Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
zero-sugar-mainline-defconfig
Zhenzhong Duan 2019-10-23 19:16:23 +08:00 committed by Paolo Bonzini
parent 05eee619ed
commit 9a3c05e658
2 changed files with 6 additions and 5 deletions
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Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
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@ -5712,8 +5712,9 @@
panic() code such as dumping handler.
xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
optimizations.
Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
xen_nopv [X86]
Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
@ -5739,7 +5740,7 @@
as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
nopvspin [X86,KVM]
nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM]
Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
contention.

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arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
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@ -114,9 +114,8 @@ PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(xen_vcpu_stolen);
*/
void __init xen_init_spinlocks(void)
{
/* Don't need to use pvqspinlock code if there is only 1 vCPU. */
if (num_possible_cpus() == 1)
if (num_possible_cpus() == 1 || nopvspin)
xen_pvspin = false;
if (!xen_pvspin) {
@ -137,6 +136,7 @@ void __init xen_init_spinlocks(void)
static __init int xen_parse_nopvspin(char *arg)
{
pr_notice("\"xen_nopvspin\" is deprecated, please use \"nopvspin\" instead\n");
xen_pvspin = false;
return 0;
}