Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2017 22:43:48 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/10] x86/apic: Install an empty physflat_init_apic_ldr |
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> > > As the comment already stated, there is no need for setting up LDR in
I prefer to have a proper reference to documentation why this is not needed than to a comment which is technically dubious.
> physflat mode as it remains unused. flat_init_apic_ldr only served as a > placeholder for a nop operation so far, causing no harm. > > That will change when running over the Jailhouse hypervisor. Here we > must not touch LDR in a way that destroys the mapping originally set up > by the Linux root cell. Jailhouse enforces this setting in order to > efficiently validate any IPI requests sent by a cell. > > Avoid a needless clash caused by flat_init_apic_ldr by installing a true > nop handler. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> > --- > arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c | 8 ++++++-- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c > index aa85690e9b64..34bfdfe29a04 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c > @@ -218,6 +218,11 @@ static int physflat_acpi_madt_oem_check(char *oem_id, char *oem_table_id) > return 0; > } > > +void physflat_init_apic_ldr(void)
static ?
> +{ > + /* LDR is not used in physflat mode. */
flat_init_apic_ldr() also fiddles with DFR ...
> +} > + > static void physflat_send_IPI_allbutself(int vector) > { > default_send_IPI_mask_allbutself_phys(cpu_online_mask, vector); > @@ -251,8 +256,7 @@ static struct apic apic_physflat __ro_after_init = { > .dest_logical = 0, > .check_apicid_used = NULL, > > - /* not needed, but shouldn't hurt: */ > - .init_apic_ldr = flat_init_apic_ldr, > + .init_apic_ldr = physflat_init_apic_ldr, > > .ioapic_phys_id_map = NULL, > .setup_apic_routing = NULL, > -- > 2.12.3 > >
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