On 7/1/19 1:19 AM, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
> Map 'xen_nopv' to 'nopv' and mark 'xen_nopv' obsolete in
> kernel-parameters.txt

I am not sure we want patch #3, why not do everything in a single patch?


>
> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <[email protected]>
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++
>  arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c                    | 7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt 
> b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index d5c3dcc..34eb323 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -5264,6 +5264,12 @@
>                       improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
>                       more timer interrupts.
>  
> +     xen_nopv        [X86]
> +                     Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
> +                     run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
> +                     This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
> +                     has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
> +
>       nopv=           [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
>                       Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
>                       as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c
> index 340dff8..5cdd608 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c
> @@ -211,6 +211,13 @@ static void __init xen_hvm_guest_init(void)
>  #endif
>  }
>  
> +static __init int xen_parse_nopv(char *arg)
> +{
> +     nopv = true;

pr_notice("\"xen_nopv\" is deprecated, please use \"nopv\" instead\n");


-boris

> +     return 0;
> +}
> +early_param("xen_nopv", xen_parse_nopv);
> +
>  bool __init xen_hvm_need_lapic(void)
>  {
>       if (xen_pv_domain())

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