linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] xen: HVM X2APIC support

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Date:	Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:35:57 +0000
From:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>
To:	Sheng Yang <sheng@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] xen: HVM X2APIC support

On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 17:23 +0800, Sheng Yang wrote:

> Thanks for the comments, but seems it's a little late. The patches have been there 
> for more than a month since the first version, and now they are finally in the 
> tree... And since it's not a bug, could we leave it to the later clean up?

Sure. Are you going to do that?
 
> > > > Also, checking for the XenVMMXenVMM signature alone seems like a very
> > > > broad test for checking the availability of a specific feature, is
> > > > there nothing more specific which we could/should be testing?
> > > 
> > > The CPU flag x2apic is checked when we want to enable x2apic, and only
> > > Xen which supported x2apic emulation would show this flag.
> > 
> > A comment to that effect, in the checkin commentary if not the code,
> > would be a useful reminder of this.
> 
> The caller of the function indicate so, it's in the x2apic enabling code(which is 
> the same as KVM). So I think that maybe enough.

It's not obvious to the likes of me but if it makes sense to people who
know x2apic (but not necessarily Xen or KVM) then I guess it's ok.

Ian.


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