KVM: polling: add architecture backend to disable polling
There are cases where halt polling is unwanted. For example when running
KVM on an over committed LPAR we rather want to give back the CPU to
neighbour LPARs instead of polling. Let us provide a callback that
allows architectures to disable polling.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 55fe8e2..23aec2f 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2253,7 +2253,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
u64 block_ns;
start = cur = ktime_get();
- if (vcpu->halt_poll_ns) {
+ if (vcpu->halt_poll_ns && !kvm_arch_no_poll(vcpu)) {
ktime_t stop = ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), vcpu->halt_poll_ns);
++vcpu->stat.halt_attempted_poll;