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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior a6fda6dab9 rcutorture: Tweak kvm options
In one of my rcutorture tests the TSC clocksource got marked unstable
due to a large difference in the TSC value. I'm not sure if the guest
run for a long time with disabled interrupts or if the host was very
busy and didn't schedule the guest for some time.

I took a look on the qemu/KVM options and decided to update the options:

- Use kvm{32|64} as CPU. We could probably use `host' (like ARM does)
  for maximum available features but since we don't run any userland I'm
  not sure if it makes any difference.

- Drop the "noapic" option. There is no history why the APIC was disabled,
  I see no reason for it.  Once old qemu versions fade away, we can add
  "x2apic=on,tsc-deadline=on,hypervisor=on,tsc_adjust=on".

- Additional config options. It ensures that the kernel knowns that it
  runs as a kvm guest and can use virt devices like the kvm-clock as
  clocksource. The kvm-clock was the main motivation here.

- I didn't add a random HW device. It would make the random device ready
  earlier (not it doesn't complete the initialisation at all) but I
  doubt that there is any need for this.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ paulmck: The world is not quite ready for CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS=y
  and x2apic, so they are omitted for the time being. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-05-28 09:06:09 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-05-19 12:15:32 -07:00
block for-5.2/block-post-20190516 2019-05-16 19:08:15 -07:00
certs kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify 2019-02-04 17:34:07 -05:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2019-05-07 22:03:58 -07:00
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fs This pull request contains the following fixes for UBIFS: 2019-05-19 15:22:03 -07:00
include torture: Allow inter-stutter interval to be specified 2019-05-28 09:06:09 -07:00
init initramfs: don't free a non-existent initrd 2019-05-18 15:52:26 -07:00
ipc ipc: do cyclic id allocation for the ipc object. 2019-05-14 19:52:52 -07:00
kernel rcutorture: Add trivial RCU implementation 2019-05-28 09:06:09 -07:00
lib slab: remove /proc/slab_allocators 2019-05-16 15:51:55 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
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scripts kconfig: use 'else ifneq' for Makefile to improve readability 2019-05-19 09:34:35 +09:00
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tools rcutorture: Tweak kvm options 2019-05-28 09:06:09 -07:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt * ARM: support for SVE and Pointer Authentication in guests, PMU improvements 2019-05-17 10:33:30 -07:00
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CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.