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    KVM: x86: Add fastpath handling of HLT VM-Exits · 1876dd69
    Sean Christopherson authored
    Add a fastpath for HLT VM-Exits by immediately re-entering the guest if
    it has a pending wake event.  When virtual interrupt delivery is enabled,
    i.e. when KVM doesn't need to manually inject interrupts, this allows KVM
    to stay in the fastpath run loop when a vIRQ arrives between the guest
    doing CLI and STI;HLT.  Without AMD's Idle HLT-intercept support, the CPU
    generates a HLT VM-Exit even though KVM will immediately resume the guest.
    
    Note, on bare metal, it's relatively uncommon for a modern guest kernel to
    actually trigger this scenario, as the window between the guest checking
    for a wake event and committing to HLT is quite small.  But in a nested
    environment, the timings change significantly, e.g. rudimentary testing
    showed that ~50% of HLT exits where HLT-polling was successful would be
    serviced by this fastpath, i.e. ~50% of the time that a nested vCPU gets
    a wake event before KVM schedules out the vCPU, the wake event was pending
    even before the VM-Exit.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240528041926.3989-3-manali.shukla@amd.com
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240802195120.325560-6-seanjc@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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