From: Luke Nowakowski-Krijger <lnowakow@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Convert paravirt_opts.txt to .rst format to be able to be parsed by
sphinx.
Made some minor spacing and formatting corrections to make defintions
much more clear and easy to read.
Signed-off-by: Luke Nowakowski-Krijger <lnowakow@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../{paravirt_ops.txt => paravirt_ops.rst} | 19 +++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/virtual/{paravirt_ops.txt => paravirt_ops.rst} (65%)
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/paravirt_ops.txt b/Documentation/virtual/paravirt_ops.rst
similarity index 65%
rename from Documentation/virtual/paravirt_ops.txt
rename to Documentation/virtual/paravirt_ops.rst
index d4881c00e339..6b789d27cead 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/paravirt_ops.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/paravirt_ops.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+============
Paravirt_ops
============
@@ -18,15 +21,15 @@ at boot time.
pv_ops operations are classified into three categories:
- simple indirect call
- These operations correspond to high level functionality where it is
- known that the overhead of indirect call isn't very important.
+ These operations correspond to high level functionality where it is
+ known that the overhead of indirect call isn't very important.
- indirect call which allows optimization with binary patch
- Usually these operations correspond to low level critical instructions. They
- are called frequently and are performance critical. The overhead is
- very important.
+ Usually these operations correspond to low level critical instructions. They
+ are called frequently and are performance critical. The overhead is
+ very important.
- a set of macros for hand written assembly code
- Hand written assembly codes (.S files) also need paravirtualization
- because they include sensitive instructions or some of code paths in
- them are very performance critical.
+ Hand written assembly codes (.S files) also need paravirtualization
+ because they include sensitive instructions or some of code paths in
+ them are very performance critical.
--
2.20.1
