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Commit cdafece4 authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86: Invoke kvm_vcpu_block() directly for non-HALTED wait states



Call kvm_vcpu_block() directly for all wait states except HALTED so that
kvm_vcpu_halt() is no longer a misnomer on x86.

Functionally, this means KVM will never attempt halt-polling or adjust
vcpu->halt_poll_ns for INIT_RECEIVED (a.k.a. Wait-For-SIPI (WFS)) or
AP_RESET_HOLD; UNINITIALIZED is handled in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(),
and x86 doesn't use any other "wait" states.

As mentioned above, the motivation of this is purely so that "halt" isn't
overloaded on x86, e.g. in KVM's stats.  Skipping halt-polling for WFS
(and RESET_HOLD) has no meaningful effect on guest performance as there
are typically single-digit numbers of INIT-SIPI sequences per AP vCPU,
per boot, versus thousands of HLTs just to boot to console.

Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20211009021236.4122790-19-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent c91d4497
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