[Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] docs: add vpmu description to xen-command-line.markdown

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# HG changeset patch
# User Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1335517766 -7200
# Node ID 54c8c9eaee9295f2790dc2fbb8f4094c13a4185e
# Parent  453bd08998001bb0212f6c4101bb6228ef70da1b
docs: add vpmu description to xen-command-line.markdown

Add a short description to the vpmu boot option in the
xen-command-line.markdown

Signed-off-by:  Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
---


diff -r 453bd0899800 -r 54c8c9eaee92 docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
--- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown       Thu May 10 17:33:59 2012 +0100
+++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown       Fri Apr 27 11:09:26 2012 +0200
@@ -543,7 +543,28 @@ console even after dom0 has been started
 relinquish control to dom0.
 
 ### vpid
+
 ### vpmu
+> `= ( bts )`
+
+> Default: `off`
+
+Switch on the virtualized performance monitoring unit for HVM guests.
+
+If the current cpu isn't supported a message like  
+'VPMU: Initialization failed. ...'  
+is printed on the hypervisor serial log.
+
+For some Intel Nehalem processors a quirk handling exist for an unknown
+wrong behaviour (see handle_pmc_quirk()).
+
+If 'vpmu=bts' is specified the virtualisation of the Branch Trace Store (BTS)
+feature is switched on on Intel processors supporting this feature.
+
+*Warning:*
+As the BTS virtualisation is not 100% safe and because of the nehalem quirk
+don't use the vpmu flag on production systems with Intel cpus!
+
 ### vti\_vhpt\_size
 ### vti\_vtlb\_size
 ### watchdog

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