diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 385070180c2587df524fed552ac0f36b71cac26b..832be033e654243a461f6b1c99189660209b1d13 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
 
 #define KVM_MAX_VCPUS VGIC_V2_MAX_CPUS
 
+#define KVM_REQ_VCPU_EXIT	8
+
 u32 *kvm_vcpu_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u8 reg_num, u32 mode);
 int __attribute_const__ kvm_target_cpu(void);
 int kvm_reset_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
@@ -225,6 +227,8 @@ static inline void kvm_arch_mmu_notifier_invalidate_page(struct kvm *kvm,
 
 struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arm_get_running_vcpu(void);
 struct kvm_vcpu __percpu **kvm_get_running_vcpus(void);
+void kvm_arm_halt_guest(struct kvm *kvm);
+void kvm_arm_resume_guest(struct kvm *kvm);
 
 int kvm_arm_copy_coproc_indices(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 __user *uindices);
 unsigned long kvm_arm_num_coproc_regs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
index ceb9345bcf07283ab5099dc3bc3e8f4b335739e2..e89329d22c18cc4ea38bc4cefaab52c908eb4236 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
@@ -492,30 +492,31 @@ bool kvm_arch_intc_initialized(struct kvm *kvm)
 	return vgic_initialized(kvm);
 }
 
-static void kvm_arm_halt_guest(struct kvm *kvm) __maybe_unused;
-static void kvm_arm_resume_guest(struct kvm *kvm) __maybe_unused;
-
-static void kvm_arm_halt_guest(struct kvm *kvm)
+void kvm_arm_halt_guest(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
 	int i;
 	struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
 
 	kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm)
 		vcpu->arch.pause = true;
-	force_vm_exit(cpu_all_mask);
+	kvm_make_all_cpus_request(kvm, KVM_REQ_VCPU_EXIT);
+}
+
+static void kvm_arm_resume_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+	struct swait_queue_head *wq = kvm_arch_vcpu_wq(vcpu);
+
+	vcpu->arch.pause = false;
+	swake_up(wq);
 }
 
-static void kvm_arm_resume_guest(struct kvm *kvm)
+void kvm_arm_resume_guest(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
 	int i;
 	struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
 
-	kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm) {
-		struct swait_queue_head *wq = kvm_arch_vcpu_wq(vcpu);
-
-		vcpu->arch.pause = false;
-		swake_up(wq);
-	}
+	kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm)
+		kvm_arm_resume_vcpu(vcpu);
 }
 
 static void vcpu_sleep(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 4cd4196e94a9b8f32158cee453f991424ea53e82..fa94f91812ab1e547491c65cc25ab9212e04f3f8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
 
 #define KVM_VCPU_MAX_FEATURES 4
 
+#define KVM_REQ_VCPU_EXIT	8
+
 int __attribute_const__ kvm_target_cpu(void);
 int kvm_reset_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
 int kvm_arch_dev_ioctl_check_extension(long ext);
@@ -325,6 +327,8 @@ static inline void kvm_arch_mmu_notifier_invalidate_page(struct kvm *kvm,
 
 struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arm_get_running_vcpu(void);
 struct kvm_vcpu * __percpu *kvm_get_running_vcpus(void);
+void kvm_arm_halt_guest(struct kvm *kvm);
+void kvm_arm_resume_guest(struct kvm *kvm);
 
 u64 __kvm_call_hyp(void *hypfn, ...);
 #define kvm_call_hyp(f, ...) __kvm_call_hyp(kvm_ksym_ref(f), ##__VA_ARGS__)