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@@ -4806,8 +4806,10 @@ If an MSR access is not permitted through the filtering, it generates a
allows user space to deflect and potentially handle various MSR accesses
into user space.
-If a vCPU is in running state while this ioctl is invoked, the vCPU may
-experience inconsistent filtering behavior on MSR accesses.
+Note, invoking this ioctl with a vCPU is running is inherently racy. However,
+KVM does guarantee that vCPUs will see either the previous filter or the new
+filter, e.g. MSRs with identical settings in both the old and new filter will
+have deterministic behavior.
4.127 KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR
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