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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
As documented by commit b488f021 "ACPI: restore comment justifying
'extra' P_LVLx access", Linux does an extra IO read after entering idle
because on (some) chipsets STPCLK# doesn't get asserted in time
to prevent further instruction processing.

This can never be the case on KVM, and a timer read causes an expensive
VM exit in turn causing useless load on host system. Detect KVM and skip
the read.  TODO: whitelist more hypervisors?

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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