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docs: add vpmu description to xen-command-line.markdown
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> Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
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@@ -543,7 +543,28 @@ console even after dom0 has been started. The default behaviour is to
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relinquish control to dom0.
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### vpid
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### vpmu
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> `= ( bts )`
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> Default: `off`
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Switch on the virtualized performance monitoring unit for HVM guests.
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If the current cpu isn't supported a message like
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'VPMU: Initialization failed. ...'
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is printed on the hypervisor serial log.
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For some Intel Nehalem processors a quirk handling exist for an unknown
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wrong behaviour (see handle_pmc_quirk()).
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If 'vpmu=bts' is specified the virtualisation of the Branch Trace Store (BTS)
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feature is switched on on Intel processors supporting this feature.
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*Warning:*
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As the BTS virtualisation is not 100% safe and because of the nehalem quirk
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don't use the vpmu flag on production systems with Intel cpus!
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### vti\_vhpt\_size
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### vti\_vtlb\_size
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### watchdog
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