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Commit e2ed4078 authored by Suravee Suthikulpanit's avatar Suravee Suthikulpanit Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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kvm: i8254: Deactivate APICv when using in-kernel PIT re-injection mode.



AMD SVM AVIC accelerates EOI write and does not trap. This causes
in-kernel PIT re-injection mode to fail since it relies on irq-ack
notifier mechanism. So, APICv is activated only when in-kernel PIT
is in discard mode e.g. w/ qemu option:

  -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard

Also, introduce APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_PIT_REINJ bit to be used for this
reason.

Suggested-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSuravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent f3515dc3
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