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    KVM: x86/xen: Allow XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE flag behaviour to be configured · d8ba8ba4
    David Woodhouse authored
    Closer inspection of the Xen code shows that we aren't supposed to be
    using the XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE flag unconditionally. It should be
    explicitly enabled by guests through the HYPERVISOR_vm_assist hypercall.
    If we randomly set the top bit of ->state_entry_time for a guest that
    hasn't asked for it and doesn't expect it, that could make the runtimes
    fail to add up and confuse the guest. Without the flag it's perfectly
    safe for a vCPU to read its own vcpu_runstate_info; just not for one
    vCPU to read *another's*.
    
    I briefly pondered adding a word for the whole set of VMASST_TYPE_*
    flags but the only one we care about for HVM guests is this, so it
    seemed a bit pointless.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
    Message-Id: <20221127122210.248427-3-dwmw2@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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