Re: [Android-virt] [PATCH v9 16/16] ARM: KVM: Guest wait-for-interrupts (WFI) support

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On 3 July 2012 14:24, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/03/2012 04:14 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> You could just always wake the cpu when migrating: the
>> architecture allows WFI to return early for any reason
>> it likes including implementation convenience.
>
> Seems reasonable.
>
> I imagine wfi works with interrupts disabled, unlike the x86 silliness?

Not sure exactly which bit of x86 silliness you're referring
to, but WFI will wake up regardless of the interrupt mask
bits in the CPSR. (If you've disabled interrupts in the GIC
that's your own bad lookout I guess.)

-- PMM
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