linux/arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig
Ming Lei ef748917b5 arm/arm64: KVM: Remove 'config KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS'
This patch removes config option of KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS,
and like other ARCHs, just choose the maximum allowed
value from hardware, and follows the reasons:

1) from distribution view, the option has to be
defined as the max allowed value because it need to
meet all kinds of virtulization applications and
need to support most of SoCs;

2) using a bigger value doesn't introduce extra memory
consumption, and the help text in Kconfig isn't accurate
because kvm_vpu structure isn't allocated until request
of creating VCPU is sent from QEMU;

3) the main effect is that the field of vcpus[] in 'struct kvm'
becomes a bit bigger(sizeof(void *) per vcpu) and need more cache
lines to hold the structure, but 'struct kvm' is one generic struct,
and it has worked well on other ARCHs already in this way. Also,
the world switch frequecy is often low, for example, it is ~2000
when running kernel building load in VM from APM xgene KVM host,
so the effect is very small, and the difference can't be observed
in my test at all.

Cc: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2015-09-17 13:13:27 +01:00

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#
# KVM configuration
#
source "virt/kvm/Kconfig"
menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
bool "Virtualization"
---help---
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run
other operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and
disabled.
if VIRTUALIZATION
config KVM
bool "Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support"
depends on MMU && OF
select PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
select ANON_INODES
select HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT
select HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL
select KVM_MMIO
select KVM_ARM_HOST
select KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT
select SRCU
select MMU_NOTIFIER
select KVM_VFIO
select HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD
select HAVE_KVM_IRQFD
depends on ARM_VIRT_EXT && ARM_LPAE && ARM_ARCH_TIMER
---help---
Support hosting virtualized guest machines.
This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
a character device node named /dev/kvm.
If unsure, say N.
config KVM_ARM_HOST
bool
---help---
Provides host support for ARM processors.
endif # VIRTUALIZATION