Re: rebase hlt emulation

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Gregory Haskins wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 13:33 +0800, Dong, Eddie wrote:
>   
>> Here is the update with adding HLT cap.
>>     
>
> Thats a good start, but you probably need to make the decision to use
> the halt predicated on a halt-specific boolean set by userspace in order
> to actually function as we've discussed.  This is in contrast to
> overloading the decision with the presence of the in-kernel PIC.  A
> capability indicator without a way to turn it on/off is fairly useless,
> IMHO.
>
> Conversely I don't think its a big deal to just skip the predicate all
> together since your version of the patches wont cause as severe of an
> issue as we had in hybrid mode.  So I would say either make the full
> conversion or drop the CAP altogether.
>
>   

I'd like to keep it as a precaution.  If we later find out it's 
unneeded, we can rip it out (keeping the cap but always doing hlt in 
kernel, regardless of what the user wants).

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