On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 02:33:12PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote: > I don't think there is any guarantee that MONITOR/MWAIT would work within a > guest (I'd have to dig some more on that to get a definitive answer, but > probably not necessary to do). As you say, if KVM emulates it as a NOP, > there's no sense in exposing the GPA - make it a NOP in the handler. I just > need to poke some other hypervisor vendors and hear what they have to say. Okay, makes sense. I made monitor/mwait nops in the patch-set. Regards, Joerg