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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2007-05-02 19:27:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2007-05-02 19:27:16 +0200 |
| commit | 959b4fdfe7e27bcf101e2381e500e4076f2bb9ce (patch) | |
| tree | 65406ba086d3547ac1570639a8e7e42345191ed4 | |
| parent | 752783c050f1729452a89b2baea45b0124ac91c7 (diff) | |
[PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: Allow boot-time disable of paravirt_ops patching
Add "noreplace-paravirt" to disable paravirt_ops patching.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/alternative.c | 13 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 242b3a09b6c..38d7db3262c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ parameter is applicable: GENERIC_TIME The generic timeofday code is enabled. NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled. OSS OSS sound support is enabled. + PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel PARIDE The ParIDE subsystem is enabled. PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled. PCI PCI bus support is enabled. @@ -1164,6 +1165,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nomce [IA-32] Machine Check Exception + noreplace-paravirt [IA-32,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops + noreplace-smp [IA-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions with UP alternatives diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/i386/kernel/alternative.c index c5d037c6095..080a59d56ea 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/alternative.c @@ -30,6 +30,16 @@ static int __init setup_noreplace_smp(char *str) } __setup("noreplace-smp", setup_noreplace_smp); +#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT +static int noreplace_paravirt = 0; + +static int __init setup_noreplace_paravirt(char *str) +{ + noreplace_paravirt = 1; + return 1; +} +__setup("noreplace-paravirt", setup_noreplace_paravirt); +#endif #define DPRINTK(fmt, args...) if (debug_alternative) \ printk(KERN_DEBUG fmt, args) @@ -330,6 +340,9 @@ void apply_paravirt(struct paravirt_patch_site *start, { struct paravirt_patch_site *p; + if (noreplace_paravirt) + return; + for (p = start; p < end; p++) { unsigned int used; |