Re: [PATCH] X86/VMX: Disable VMX preempition timer if MWAIT is not intercepted

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue Apr 10 2018 - 05:04:34 EST


On 10/04/2018 10:50, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> WARN_ON(preemptible());
> - if (!kvm_x86_ops->set_hv_timer)
> + if (!kvm_x86_ops->has_hv_timer ||
> + !kvm_x86_ops->has_hv_timer(apic->vcpu))
> return false;
>
> if (!apic_lvtt_period(apic) && atomic_read(&ktimer->pending))

Why not just return -ENOTSUP from vmx_set_hv_timer?

Thanks,

Paolo