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resource and perform the virtualized operations based on the virtual instance of the
resource without handling off to the VMM.
Section 11.7.4.2, “Virtualization
describes the supported Virtualization accelerations
in the architecture.
• Virtualization disables – Virtualization disables optimize the execution of virtualized
instructions by disabling virtualization of a particular resource or instruction.
Accesses to the virtualization-disabled resources or executions of
virtualization-disabled instructions, even with PSR.vm==1, will not cause intercepts
to the VMM.
Section 11.7.4.3, “Virtualization Disables” on page 2:346
describes the
supported Virtualization disables in the architecture.
11.7.4.1
Global Virtualization Optimizations
summarizes the global virtualization optimizations supported in Itanium
architecture.
Certain global virtualization optimizations have VPD synchronization requirements.
Please refer to the corresponding section of each global virtualization optimizations for
more details on these requirements.
11.7.4.1.1 Virtualization Opcode Optimization
Virtualization opcode optimization is always enabled. Opcode information is provided to
the VMM during PAL intercepts in the virtual environment. In some processor
implementations, the opcode provided may not be guaranteed to be the opcode that
triggered the intercept; virtual machine monitors can determine whether this is
guaranteed from the
vp_env_info
return value of PAL_VP_ENV_INFO.
Table 11-16, “Virtual Processor Descriptor (VPD)” on page 2:326
shows the synchronization requirements and the VPD states that will be accessed for
this optimization.
Table 11-23.Global Virtualization Optimizations Summary
Optimization
config_options
a
a.
config_option
s is a parameter for the PAL_VP_INIT_ENV procedure. See
Initialize Virtual Environment (268)” on page 2:478
for details.
Description
Virtualization Opcode Optimization
opcode
Virtualization Cause Optimization
cause
Guest MOV-from-AR.ITC Optimization
gitc
Table 11-24.Synchronization Requirements for Virtualization Opcode Optimi-
zation
VPD Resource
Synchronization Required
vpsr.ic
Write
vpsr.si
Write
vifa
Write
vitir
Write
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