[PATCH 2/4] KVM: x86: prevent MWAIT in guest with buggy MONITOR

[Radim Krčmář]

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.

Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrc...@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
index 3ed7dd8737ab..63d5fb65ea30 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
@@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ static inline bool kvm_mwait_in_guest(void)
                return false;
        }
 
+       if (boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_MONITOR))
+               return false;
+
        /*
         * Intel CPUs without CPUID5_ECX_INTERRUPT_BREAK are problematic as
         * they would allow guest to stop the CPU completely by disabling
-- 
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