Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757324AbaAHSwX (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jan 2014 13:52:23 -0500 Received: from smtp02.citrix.com ([66.165.176.63]:55841 "EHLO SMTP02.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756881AbaAHSu6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jan 2014 13:50:58 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.95,625,1384300800"; d="scan'208";a="88846947" From: Stefano Stabellini To: CC: , , , , , , , , , , , Stefano Stabellini , , Subject: [PATCH v8 3/6] arm: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 18:49:55 +0000 Message-ID: <1389206998-27875-3-git-send-email-stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-DLP: MIA1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT and PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING on ARM. The only paravirt interface supported is pv_time_ops.steal_clock, so no runtime pvops patching needed. This allows us to make use of steal_account_process_tick for stolen ticks accounting. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini Acked-by: Christopher Covington CC: linux@arm.linux.org.uk CC: will.deacon@arm.com CC: nico@linaro.org CC: marc.zyngier@arm.com CC: cov@codeaurora.org CC: arnd@arndb.de CC: olof@lixom.net --- Changes in v7: - ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT the content of paravirt.h. Changes in v3: - improve commit description and Kconfig help text; - no need to initialize pv_time_ops; - add PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING. --- arch/arm/Kconfig | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm/kernel/Makefile | 1 + 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index c1f1a7e..d6c3ba1 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -1874,6 +1874,25 @@ config SWIOTLB config IOMMU_HELPER def_bool SWIOTLB +config PARAVIRT + bool "Enable paravirtualization code" + ---help--- + This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run + under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly + over full virtualization. + +config PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING + bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting" + select PARAVIRT + default n + ---help--- + Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time + accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with + the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for + that, there can be a small performance impact. + + If in doubt, say N here. + config XEN_DOM0 def_bool y depends on XEN @@ -1885,6 +1904,7 @@ config XEN depends on !GENERIC_ATOMIC64 select ARM_PSCI select SWIOTLB_XEN + select PARAVIRT help Say Y if you want to run Linux in a Virtual Machine on Xen on ARM. diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile index a30fc9b..bcd2b38 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY) += topology.o ifneq ($(CONFIG_ARCH_EBSA110),y) obj-y += io.o endif +obj-$(CONFIG_PARAVIRT) += paravirt.o head-y := head$(MMUEXT).o obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_LL) += debug.o -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/