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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Android-virt] [PATCH v9 16/16] ARM: KVM: Guest
 wait-for-interrupts (WFI) support
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:14:55 +0100
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On 3 July 2012 14:10, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> Or you could just call kvm_vcpu_block() here without having the
> variable.  But eventually you'll need it since you want to expose wfi
> state to userspace for live migration.

You could just always wake the cpu when migrating: the
architecture allows WFI to return early for any reason
it likes including implementation convenience.

-- PMM