Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: x86: add vCPU ioctl for HLT exits disable capability

[Sean Christopherson]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Does your use case require toggling intercepts?  Or is the configuration static?
> If it's static, then the easiest thing would be to follow the per-VM behavior so
> that there are no suprises.  If toggling is required, then I think the best thing
> would be to add a prep patch to add an override flag to the per-VM ioctl, and then
> share code between the per-VM and per-vCPU paths for modifying the flags (attached
> as patch 0003).

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> If toggling is not required, then I still think it makes sense to add a macro to
> handle propagating the capability args to the arch flags.

Almost forgot.  Can you please add a selftests to verify whatever per-VM and
per-vCPU behavior we end implementing?  Thanks!