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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 16:58:52 -0400 From: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com> To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> Cc: x86@...nel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>, Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com> Subject: [PATCH-tip v2 0/2] x86/paravirt: Enable users to choose PV lock type v1->v2: - Make pv_spinlock_type a bit mask for easier checking. - Add patch 2 to deprecate xen_nopvspin v1 - https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/1/381 Patch 1 adds a new pvlock_type parameter for the administrators to specify the type of lock to be used in a para-virtualized kernel. Patch 2 deprecates Xen's xen_nopvspin parameter as it is no longer needed. Waiman Long (2): x86/paravirt: Add kernel parameter to choose paravirt lock type x86/xen: Deprecate xen_nopvspin Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 ++++--- arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h | 9 ++++++ arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 3 ++ arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c | 17 +++++------ 5 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1
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