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    X86/KVM: Do not allow DISABLE_EXITS_MWAIT when LAPIC ARAT is not available · 8e9b29b6
    KarimAllah Ahmed authored
    If the processor does not have an "Always Running APIC Timer" (aka ARAT),
    we should not give guests direct access to MWAIT. The LAPIC timer would
    stop ticking in deep C-states, so any host deadlines would not wakeup the
    host kernel.
    
    The host kernel intel_idle driver handles this by switching to broadcast
    mode when ARAT is not available and MWAIT is issued with a deep C-state
    that would stop the LAPIC timer. When MWAIT is passed through, we can not
    tell when MWAIT is issued.
    
    So just disable this capability when LAPIC ARAT is not available. I am not
    even sure if there are any CPUs with VMX support but no LAPIC ARAT or not.
    
    Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarWanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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