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The hypervisor assigns vas credits (windows) for each LPAR based on the number of cores configured in that system. The OS is expected to release credits when cores are removed, and may allocate more when cores are added. So there is a possibility of using excessive credits (windows) in the LPAR and the hypervisor expects the system to close the excessive windows so that NX load can be equally distributed across all LPARs in the system. When the OS closes the excessive windows in the hypervisor, it sets the window status inactive and invalidates window virtual address mapping. The user space receives paste instruction failure if any NX requests are issued on the inactive window. Then the user space can use with the available open windows or retry NX requests until this window active again. This patch also adds the notifier for core removal/add to close windows in the hypervisor if the system lost credits (core removal) and reopen windows in the hypervisor when the previously lost credits are available. Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/108928f9c00a48cc6a722315d482d07cf66acf5a.camel@linux.ibm.com
Linux kernel
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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.