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| author | Paolo Bonzini | 2016-03-09 11:50:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini | 2016-03-09 11:50:42 +0100 |
| commit | ab92f30875a7ec3e84644a5494febd8901e66742 (patch) | |
| tree | 5254eb36b20b0d1c584c15d0bf3d6a5a9c1bb451 /arch/arm64/Kconfig | |
| parent | bb9eadf0c35f2e7eb5ca6468f46ebb7473b85537 (diff) | |
| parent | b40c4892d175874d118860c8282a85ee7b64bcbb (diff) | |
Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD
KVM/ARM updates for 4.6
- VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems
- PMU support for guests
- 32bit world switch rewritten in C
- Various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code
Conflicts:
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/Kconfig | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index 8cc62289a63e..cf118d93290d 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -750,6 +750,19 @@ config ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS not support these instructions and requires the kernel to be built with binutils >= 2.25. +config ARM64_VHE + bool "Enable support for Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE)" + default y + help + Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE) allow the kernel to run + directly at EL2 (instead of EL1) on processors that support + it. This leads to better performance for KVM, as they reduce + the cost of the world switch. + + Selecting this option allows the VHE feature to be detected + at runtime, and does not affect processors that do not + implement this feature. + endmenu endmenu |