linux-kernel - Re: [PART1 RFC v2 05/10] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:12:17 +0100
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>,
	rkrcmar@...hat.com, joro@...tes.org, bp@...en8.de, gleb@...nel.org,
	alex.williamson@...hat.com
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, wei@...hat.com,
	sherry.hurwitz@....com
Subject: Re: [PART1 RFC v2 05/10] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support



On 16/03/2016 09:21, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:
>> Strictly speaking the address of the 0xFEE00000 translation is
>> unnecessary and it could be all zeroes, but I suggest that you set up an
>> APIC access page like Intel does (4k only), using the special memslot.
>> The AVIC backing page can then point to lapic->regs.
> 
> Ahh... you are right, this works also. Thanks for the pointer. I'm
> fixing this, doing some more testing, and cleaning up the code. This has
> simplify the init logic quite a bit.

Awesome, thanks.

Paolo