With this patch, the cpuidle driver does not load and
does not issue the mwait operations. Instead the hypervisor
is doing them (b/c we call the safe_halt pvops call).
This fixes quite a lot of bootup issues wherein the user had
to force interrupts for the continuation of the bootup.
Details are discussed in:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-01/msg00535.html
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Reported-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Tested-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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