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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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On 27/06/2017 16:22, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> vcpu_is_preempted() on current cpu cannot return true, AFAIK.

Of course.  I must have been thinking of an older version of the
vcpu_is_preempted patch (at some point the guest was the one that set
preempted to 0).

Paolo