Re: [PATCH v2] x86 / viridian: remove the viridian_vcpu msg_pending bit mask

[Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 11:35:53AM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The mask does not actually serve a useful purpose as we only use the SynIC
> for timer messages. Dropping the mask means that the EOM MSR handler
> essentially becomes a no-op. This means we can avoid setting 'message_pending'
> for timer messages and hence avoid a VMEXIT for the EOM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>