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author | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2019-09-10 14:03:08 +0300 |
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committer | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2019-09-10 14:03:08 +0300 |
commit | 7711fb7dac1ab77fd1b4d948f4647a569e4a1ae2 (patch) | |
tree | dd35ad21e0eb13572757dab279ae41f6d953baed /Documentation/virt/paravirt_ops.rst | |
parent | 789492f0c86505e63369907bcb1afdf52dec9366 (diff) | |
parent | bb831786117519fc16dfd3eaa7b84e4f6bbb8d99 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'asoc-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-next
ASoC: Updates for v5.4
Quite a big update this time around, particularly in the core
where we've had a lot of cleanups from Morimoto-san - there's
not much functional change but quite a bit of modernization
going on. We've also seen a lot of driver work, a lot of it
cleanups but also some particular drivers.
- Lots and lots of cleanups from Morimoto-san and Yue Haibing.
- Lots of cleanups and enhancements to the Freescale, sunxi dnd
Intel rivers.
- Initial Sound Open Firmware suppot for i.MX8.
- Removal of w90x900 and nuc900 drivers as the platforms are
being removed.
- New support for Cirrus Logic CS47L15 and CS47L92, Freescale
i.MX 7ULP and 8MQ, Meson G12A and NXP UDA1334
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/paravirt_ops.rst b/Documentation/virt/paravirt_ops.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6b789d27cead --- /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-ops 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 of code paths in + them are very performance critical. |