From: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, May 8, 2019 at 10:47 AM To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: <kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Nadav Amit, Jim Mattson, Sean Christopherson > From: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx> > > Intel SDM 26.6.5 says regarding interrupt-window exiting that: "These > events wake the logical processor if it just entered the HLT state > because of a VM entry." A similar statement is told about NMI-window > exiting. > > However, running tests which are similar to verify_nmi_window_exit() and > verify_intr_window_exit() on bare-metal suggests that real CPUs do not > wake up. Until someone figures what the correct behavior is, just reset > the activity state to "active" after each test to prevent the whole > test-suite from getting stuck. > > Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> I think I have been assuming that "wake the logical processor" means "causes the logical processor to enter the 'active' activity state." Maybe that's not what "wake" means?
