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Commit 2a140f3b authored by Radim Krčmář's avatar Radim Krčmář Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86: prevent MWAIT in guest with buggy MONITOR



The bug prevents MWAIT from waking up after a write to the monitored
cache line.
KVM might emulate a CPU model that shouldn't have the bug, so the guest
would not employ a workaround and possibly miss wakeups.
Better to avoid the situation.

Reviewed-by: default avatarAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 0d37d26f
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