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Christoffer Dall e6d68b00e9 arm64: Use physical counter for in-kernel reads when booted in EL2
Using the physical counter allows KVM to retain the offset between the
virtual and physical counter as long as it is actively running a VCPU.

As soon as a VCPU is released, another thread is scheduled or we start
running userspace applications, we reset the offset to 0, so that
userspace accessing the virtual timer can still read the virtual counter
and get the same view of time as the kernel.

This opens up potential improvements for KVM performance, but we have to
make a few adjustments to preserve system consistency.

Currently get_cycles() is hardwired to arch_counter_get_cntvct() on
arm64, but as we move to using the physical timer for the in-kernel
time-keeping on systems that boot in EL2, we should use the same counter
for get_cycles() as for other in-kernel timekeeping operations.

Similarly, implementations of arch_timer_set_next_event_phys() is
modified to use the counter specific to the timer being programmed.

VHE kernels or kernels continuing to use the virtual timer are
unaffected.

Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
2017-11-06 16:23:09 +01:00
arch arm64: Use physical counter for in-kernel reads when booted in EL2 2017-11-06 16:23:09 +01:00
block bsg-lib: fix use-after-free under memory-pressure 2017-10-04 08:35:04 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - update correct dst SGL entry 2017-09-20 17:42:42 +08:00
Documentation Merge branch 'i2c/for-current-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2017-10-07 10:07:51 -07:00
drivers arm64: Use physical counter for in-kernel reads when booted in EL2 2017-11-06 16:23:09 +01:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
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include SCSI fixes on 20171007 2017-10-07 12:34:16 -07:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel Merge branch 'core-watchdog-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-06 08:36:41 -07:00
lib lib/ratelimit.c: use deferred printk() version 2017-10-03 17:54:26 -07:00
mm mm/memory_hotplug: define find_{smallest|biggest}_section_pfn as unsigned long 2017-10-03 17:54:26 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-05 08:40:09 -07:00
samples media updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-07 12:53:14 -07:00
scripts checkpatch: fix ignoring cover-letter logic 2017-10-03 17:54:26 -07:00
security lsm: fix smack_inode_removexattr and xattr_getsecurity memleak 2017-10-04 18:03:15 +11:00
sound sound fixes for 4.14-rc4 2017-10-05 10:39:29 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-01 12:06:31 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
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README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.