Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Synchronize APIC State with QEMU when irqchip=split
From: David Woodhouse
Date: Wed Aug 13 2025 - 06:08:49 EST
On Wed, 2025-08-13 at 17:30 +0800, hugo lee wrote:
>
> Sorry for the misleading, what I was going to say is
> do only cpu_synchroniza_state() in this new userspace exit reason
> and do nothing on the PIT.
> So QEMU will ignore the PIT as the guests do.
>
> The resample is great and needed, but the synchronization
> makes more sense to me on this question.
So if the guest doesn't actually quiesce the PIT, QEMU will *still*
keep waking up to waggle the PIT output pin, it's just that QEMU won't
bother telling the kernel about it?
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