Which disables in the ticketlock slowpath the Xen PV optimization's.
Useful for diagnosing issues and comparing benchmarks in
over-commit CPU scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 
b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 7f9d4f5..b958912 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3412,6 +3412,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be 
entirely omitted.
                                the unplug protocol
                        never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
 
+       xen_nopvspin    [X86,XEN]
+                       Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
+                       optimizations.
+
        xirc2ps_cs=     [NET,PCMCIA]
                        Format:
                        
<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
-- 
1.8.3.1

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