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Commit 98c25ead authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: VMX: Move preemption timer <=> hrtimer dance to common x86



Handle the switch to/from the hypervisor/software timer when a vCPU is
blocking in common x86 instead of in VMX.  Even though VMX is the only
user of a hypervisor timer, the logic and all functions involved are
generic x86 (unless future CPUs do something completely different and
implement a hypervisor timer that runs regardless of mode).

Handling the switch in common x86 will allow for the elimination of the
pre/post_blocks hooks, and also lets KVM switch back to the hypervisor
timer if and only if it was in use (without additional params).  Add a
comment explaining why the switch cannot be deferred to kvm_sched_out()
or kvm_vcpu_block().

Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMaxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211208015236.1616697-8-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 12a8eee5
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