Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:21:36 -0400 | From | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] X86/VMX: Disable VMX preemption timer if MWAIT is not intercepted |
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 02:15:46PM +0200, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote: > The VMX-preemption timer is used by KVM as a way to set deadlines for the > guest (i.e. timer emulation). That was safe till very recently when > capability KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_MWAIT to disable intercepting MWAIT was > introduced. According to Intel SDM 25.5.1:
Would it make sense to remove the '25.5.1' and just have the chapter name, etc as those do move around?
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