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| author | Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> | 2019-05-21 14:06:53 +0800 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2019-06-04 19:27:35 +0200 |
| commit | b51700632e0e53254733ff706e5bdca22d19dbe5 (patch) | |
| tree | 43f67534a111e163d2535bb44b3222557797fae8 /Documentation | |
| parent | 8ffdaa7f491961efb4d02d3c8d806e9a60105adb (diff) | |
KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable cstate msr read intercepts
Allow guest reads CORE cstate when exposing host CPU power management capabilities
to the guest. PKG cstate is restricted to avoid a guest to get the whole package
information in multi-tenant scenario.
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 33cd92dd6aa5..91fd86fcc49f 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -4894,6 +4894,7 @@ Valid bits in args[0] are #define KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_MWAIT (1 << 0) #define KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_HLT (1 << 1) #define KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_PAUSE (1 << 2) +#define KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_CSTATE (1 << 3) Enabling this capability on a VM provides userspace with a way to no longer intercept some instructions for improved latency in some |