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authorWanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>2019-05-21 14:06:53 +0800
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2019-06-04 19:27:35 +0200
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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>
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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