Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: Don't enable MWAIT in guest by default

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On 11/27/2017 07:13 PM, Jim Mattson wrote:
> I don't understand the concern regarding CPUID5_ECX_INTERRUPT_BREAK.
> Even if the CPU has this feature, can't the guest bypass it by
> disabling interrupts and invoking MWAIT with bit 0 of ECX clear?

Note, that there was this series at some point:

  [PATCH 0/4] KVM: x86: kvm_mwait_in_guest() cleanup and fixes
  https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg149238.html

That throws away most of the function.
No sure, what happened to that. Radim?

Regards
Jan



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