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KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable cstate msr read intercepts

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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>
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Wanpeng Li
2019-05-21 14:06:53 +08:00
committed by Paolo Bonzini
parent 8ffdaa7f49
commit b51700632e
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@@ -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