linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/10] x86: jailhouse: Enable APIC and SMP support

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Date:   Fri, 17 Nov 2017 23:42:02 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        x86@...nel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        jailhouse-dev@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] x86: jailhouse: Enable APIC and SMP support

On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Jan Kiszka wrote:

Just noticed, that all prefixes should be 'x86/jailhouse:' please

> +static unsigned int x2apic_get_apic_id(unsigned long id)
> +{
> +        return id;
> +}
> +
>  static void __init jailhouse_init_platform(void)
>  {
>  	u64 pa_data = boot_params.hdr.setup_data;
>  	struct jailhouse_setup_data *data;
> +	unsigned int cpu;
>  
>  	data = early_memremap(pa_data, sizeof(*data));
>  
> @@ -59,6 +66,23 @@ static void __init jailhouse_init_platform(void)
>  	    data->compatible_version > SETUP_REQUIRED_VERSION)
>  		panic("Jailhouse: Unsupported setup data structure");
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_X2APIC
> +	/*
> +	 * Register x2APIC handlers early. We need them when running
> +	 * register_lapic_address.
> +	 */
> +	if (x2apic_enabled()) {
> +		apic->read = native_apic_msr_read;
> +		apic->write = native_apic_msr_write;
> +		apic->get_apic_id = x2apic_get_apic_id;

Uurgh. That looks hacky.

> +	}
> +#endif
> +	register_lapic_address(0xfee00000);

No need to do all of this here. The right thing to do is to override

   x86_init.mpparse.get_smp_config

which is invoked after generic_apic_probe() which should select
x2apic_phys, but I might be wrong.


> +	for (cpu = 0; cpu < data->num_cpus; cpu++)
> +		generic_processor_info(data->cpu_ids[cpu],
> +				       boot_cpu_apic_version);

Please add brackets around multi line statements.

Thanks,

	tglx