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Liran Alon authored
Since commits 668fffa3 ("kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guestsâ€) and 4d5422ce ("KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable MWAIT interceptsâ€), KVM was modified to allow an admin to configure certain guests to execute MONITOR/MWAIT inside guest without being intercepted by host. This is useful in case admin wishes to allocate a dedicated logical processor for each vCPU thread. Thus, making it safe for guest to completely control the power-state of the logical processor. The ability to use this new KVM capability was introduced to QEMU by commits 6f131f13e68d ("kvm: support -overcommit cpu-pm=on|offâ€) and 2266d4431132 ("i386/cpu: make -cpu host support monitor/mwaitâ€). However, exposing MONITOR/MWAIT to a Linux guest may cause it's intel_idle kernel module to execute c1e_promotion_disable() which will attempt to RDMSR/WRMSR from/to MSR_IA32_POWER_CTL to manipulate the "C1E Enable" bit. This behaviour was introduced by commit 32e95180 ("intel_idle: export both C1 and C1Eâ€). Becuase KVM doesn't emulate this MSR, running KVM with ignore_msrs=0 will cause the above guest behaviour to raise a #GP which will cause guest to kernel panic. Therefore, add support for nop emulation of MSR_IA32_POWER_CTL to avoid #GP in guest in this scenario. Future commits can optimise emulation further by reflecting guest MSR changes to host MSR to provide guest with the ability to fine-tune the dedicated logical processor power-state. Reviewed-by:
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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