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[RFC,26/26] Documentation: KVM: Add description of pkg_therm_lock

Message ID 20240203091214.411862-27-zhao1.liu@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Intel Thread Director Virtualization | expand

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Zhao Liu Feb. 3, 2024, 9:12 a.m. UTC 
From: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>

pkg_therm_lock is a per-VM lock and used in PTS, HFI and ITD
virtualization supports. Add description about it.

Tested-by: Yanting Jiang <yanting.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
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 Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst
index 02880d5552d5..84a138916898 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@  time it will be set using the Dirty tracking mechanism described above.
 		wakeup.
 
 ``vendor_module_lock``
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 :Type:		mutex
 :Arch:		x86
 :Protects:	loading a vendor module (kvm_amd or kvm_intel)
@@ -298,3 +298,14 @@  time it will be set using the Dirty tracking mechanism described above.
     taken outside of kvm_lock, e.g. in KVM's CPU online/offline callbacks, and
     many operations need to take cpu_hotplug_lock when loading a vendor module,
     e.g. updating static calls.
+
+``pkg_therm_lock``
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+:Type:		mutex
+:Arch:		x86 (vmx)
+:Protects:	PTS, HFI and ITD emulation
+:Comment:	This is a per-VM lock and it is used for VM level thermal features'
+    emulation (PTS, HFI and ITD). When these features' emulated MSRs need to
+    be changed, or when we handle the virtual HFI table's update, this lock is
+    needed to create the atomi context and to avoid competing behavior of other
+    vCPUs in the same VM.