On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, Oliver Upton wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:09 AM Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com> 
> wrote:
> > Unlike PSCI power-off, WFI isn't cross-vCPU, thus there's no hard 
> > requirement
> > for using a request.  And KVM_REQ_SLEEP also has an additional guard in 
> > that it
> > doesn't enter rcuwait if power_off (or pause) was cleared after the request 
> > was
> > made, e.g. if userspace stuffed vCPU state and set the vCPU RUNNABLE.
> 
> Yeah, I don't think the punt is necessary for anything but the case
> where userspace sets the MP state to request WFI behavior. A helper
> method amongst all WFI cases is sufficient, and using the deferral for
> everything is a change in behavior.

Is there an actual use case for letting userspace request WFI behavior?
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