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From: Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@ts.fujitsu.com>
To: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add vpmu description to xen-command-line.markdown
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:20:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <95424045.BJ4a0xs4Vr@amur> (raw)

# HG changeset patch
# User Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@ts.fujitsu.com>
# Date 1335517766 -7200
# Node ID 9ba4e4a5f3b1b7dad77e2801afc0253d6d30d565
# Parent  107285938c50f82667bd4d014820b439a077c22c

Add a short description to the vpmu boot option in the
xen-command-line.markdown


Signed-off-by:  Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@ts.fujitsu.com>


diff -r 107285938c50 docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
--- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown	Thu Apr 26 10:03:08 2012 +0100
+++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown	Fri Apr 27 11:09:26 2012 +0200
@@ -543,7 +543,28 @@ console even after dom0 has been started
 relinquish control to dom0.
 
 ### vpid
+
 ### vpmu
+> `= ( bts )`
+
+> Default: `off`
+
+Switch on the virtualized performance monitoring unit for HVM guests.
+
+If the current cpu isn't supported a message like  
+'VPMU: Initialization failed. ...'  
+is printed on the hypervisor serial log.
+
+For some Intel Nehalem processors a quirk handling exist for an unknown
+wrong behaviour (see handle_pmc_quirk()).
+
+If 'vpmu=bts' is specified the virtualisation of the Branch Trace Store (BTS)
+feature is switched on on Intel processors supporting this feature.
+
+*Warning:*
+As the BTS virtualisation is not 100% safe and because of the nehalem quirk
+don't use the vpmu flag on production systems with Intel cpus!
+
 ### vti\_vhpt\_size
 ### vti\_vtlb\_size
 ### watchdog


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             reply	other threads:[~2012-04-27  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-27  9:20 Dietmar Hahn [this message]
2012-04-27  9:29 ` [PATCH] docs: add vpmu description to xen-command-line.markdown Ian Campbell
2012-04-27 10:00   ` Dietmar Hahn
2012-05-10 17:03   ` Ian Jackson

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