On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 02:00:35PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxx> > > In some cases guests should not provide workarounds for errata even when the > physical processor is affected. For example, because of erratum 400 on family > 10h processors a Linux guest will read an MSR (resulting in VMEXIT) before > going to idle in order to avoid getting stuck in a non-C0 state. This is not > necessary: HLT and IO instructions are intercepted and therefore there is no > reason for erratum 400 workaround in the guest. > > This patch allows us to present a guest with certain errata as fixed, > regardless of the state of actual hardware. > > Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxx> Applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
