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authorWanpeng Li2018-03-12 12:53:04 +0100
committerPaolo Bonzini2018-03-16 22:03:53 +0100
commitb31c114b82b2b55913d2cf744e6a665c2ca090ac (patch)
tree56aabff42789a37caea34841c397c5caf066bd34 /arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
parentKVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable HLT intercepts (diff)
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KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable PAUSE intercepts
Allow to disable pause loop exit/pause filtering on a per VM basis. If some VMs have dedicated host CPUs, they won't be negatively affected due to needlessly intercepted PAUSE instructions. Thanks to Jan H. Schönherr's initial patch. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@amazon.de> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/x86.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/x86.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 9e6aaf62bf3c..26a8cd93be0c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2878,7 +2878,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
r = KVM_CLOCK_TSC_STABLE;
break;
case KVM_CAP_X86_DISABLE_EXITS:
- r |= KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_HTL;
+ r |= KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_HTL | KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_PAUSE;
if(kvm_can_mwait_in_guest())
r |= KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_MWAIT;
break;
@@ -4235,6 +4235,8 @@ split_irqchip_unlock:
kvm->arch.mwait_in_guest = true;
if (cap->args[0] & KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_HTL)
kvm->arch.hlt_in_guest = true;
+ if (cap->args[0] & KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_PAUSE)
+ kvm->arch.pause_in_guest = true;
r = 0;
break;
default: