From: "tip-bot2 for Randy Dunlap" <tip-bot2@linutronix.de>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
"Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>,
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: x86/cleanups] Documentation: virt: Clean up paravirt_ops doc
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 10:34:15 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <168717085535.404.15451163061150954875.tip-bot2@tip-bot2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230610054310.6242-1-rdunlap@infradead.org>
The following commit has been merged into the x86/cleanups branch of tip:
Commit-ID: 6f7f812f54b46da88ec6e98b4a10e501d0d7164c
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/6f7f812f54b46da88ec6e98b4a10e501d0d7164c
Author: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
AuthorDate: Fri, 09 Jun 2023 22:43:10 -07:00
Committer: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
CommitterDate: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 12:09:54 +02:00
Documentation: virt: Clean up paravirt_ops doc
Clarify language. Clean up grammar. Hyphenate some words.
Change "low-ops" to "low-level" since "low-ops" isn't defined or even
mentioned anywhere else in the kernel source tree.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230610054310.6242-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
---
Documentation/virt/paravirt_ops.rst | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/paravirt_ops.rst b/Documentation/virt/paravirt_ops.rst
index 6b789d2..62d867e 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/paravirt_ops.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/paravirt_ops.rst
@@ -5,31 +5,31 @@ Paravirt_ops
============
Linux provides support for different hypervisor virtualization technologies.
-Historically different binary kernels would be required in order to support
-different hypervisors, this restriction was removed with pv_ops.
+Historically, different binary kernels would be required in order to support
+different hypervisors; this restriction was removed with pv_ops.
Linux pv_ops is a virtualization API which enables support for different
hypervisors. It allows each hypervisor to override critical operations and
allows a single kernel binary to run on all supported execution environments
including native machine -- without any hypervisors.
pv_ops provides a set of function pointers which represent operations
-corresponding to low level critical instructions and high level
-functionalities in various areas. pv-ops allows for optimizations at run
-time by enabling binary patching of the low-ops critical operations
+corresponding to low-level critical instructions and high-level
+functionalities in various areas. pv_ops allows for optimizations at run
+time by enabling binary patching of the low-level critical operations
at boot time.
pv_ops operations are classified into three categories:
- simple indirect call
- These operations correspond to high level functionality where it is
+ These operations correspond to high-level functionality where it is
known that the overhead of indirect call isn't very important.
- indirect call which allows optimization with binary patch
- Usually these operations correspond to low level critical instructions. They
+ Usually these operations correspond to low-level critical instructions. They
are called frequently and are performance critical. The overhead is
very important.
- a set of macros for hand written assembly code
Hand written assembly codes (.S files) also need paravirtualization
- because they include sensitive instructions or some of code paths in
+ because they include sensitive instructions or some code paths in
them are very performance critical.
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2023-06-10 5:43 [PATCH] Documentation: virt: clean " Randy Dunlap
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