KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable PAUSE intercepts
Allow to disable pause loop exit/pause filtering on a per VM basis.
If some VMs have dedicated host CPUs, they won't be negatively affected
due to needlessly intercepted PAUSE instructions.
Thanks to Jan H. Schönherr's initial patch.
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 31f4186..8fb6028 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -813,6 +813,7 @@ struct kvm_arch {
bool mwait_in_guest;
bool hlt_in_guest;
+ bool pause_in_guest;
bool ept_identity_pagetable_done;
gpa_t ept_identity_map_addr;