05 Sep, 2016

1 commit

  • Add generic virtualization support for pinning the current vCPU to a
    specified physical CPU. As this operation isn't performance critical
    (a very limited set of operations like BIOS calls and SMIs is expected
    to need this) just add a hypervisor specific indirection.

    Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
    Cc: Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: akataria@vmware.com
    Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
    Cc: chrisw@sous-sol.org
    Cc: david.vrabel@citrix.com
    Cc: hpa@zytor.com
    Cc: jdelvare@suse.com
    Cc: jeremy@goop.org
    Cc: linux@roeck-us.net
    Cc: pali.rohar@gmail.com
    Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
    Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
    Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472453327-19050-3-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Juergen Gross