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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Dietmar Hahn committed 2012-04-27 11:09:26 +02:00
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@@ -543,7 +543,28 @@ console even after dom0 has been started. The default behaviour is to
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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