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| author | Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com> | 2026-09-17 09:52:33 +0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2026-09-22 11:37:46 +0200 |
| commit | 0102c8c7fdfc4bd700971daff2b94470f4eafae4 (patch) | |
| tree | 531306c2299f9a269f0a986e29f17ba972180104 /Documentation/virt/paravirt_ops.rst | |
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perf/x86/intel: Rename DMR offcore_rsp attribute to offmodule_rspgrafted
DMR introduces Offmodule Response events in place of the legacy
Offcore Response events, but it still exposes the inherited
offcore_rsp PMU attribute for programming the corresponding MSR data.
Rename the DMR PMU attribute to offmodule_rsp so the sysfs interface
matches the underlying event name and avoids user & tooling confusion.
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260917015234.981153-12-dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/paravirt_ops.rst b/Documentation/virt/paravirt_ops.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..62d867e0d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/paravirt_ops.rst @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============ +Paravirt_ops +============ + +Linux provides support for different hypervisor virtualization technologies. +Historically, different binary kernels would be required in order to support +different hypervisors; this restriction was removed with pv_ops. +Linux pv_ops is a virtualization API which enables support for different +hypervisors. It allows each hypervisor to override critical operations and +allows a single kernel binary to run on all supported execution environments +including native machine -- without any hypervisors. + +pv_ops provides a set of function pointers which represent operations +corresponding to low-level critical instructions and high-level +functionalities in various areas. pv_ops allows for optimizations at run +time by enabling binary patching of the low-level critical operations +at boot time. + +pv_ops operations are classified into three categories: + +- simple indirect call + These operations correspond to high-level functionality where it is + known that the overhead of indirect call isn't very important. + +- indirect call which allows optimization with binary patch + Usually these operations correspond to low-level critical instructions. They + are called frequently and are performance critical. The overhead is + very important. + +- a set of macros for hand written assembly code + Hand written assembly codes (.S files) also need paravirtualization + because they include sensitive instructions or some code paths in + them are very performance critical. |
