Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] x86/hvm: Disallow moving the APIC MMIO window

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 10.12.18 at 18:04, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> See the code comment for a full discussion, but in short: guests which
> currently run under Xen don't move the window, because moving it has never
> worked properly.  Implementing support for moving the window is never going to
> work architecturally unless we switch to per-vcpu P2Ms (which seems very
> unlikely), and would still be a substantial quantity of work for a feature
> which is unused in practice.
> 
> Take the opportunity to rename vlapic_msr_set() to be consistent with the
> other MSR handling functions, and return X86EMUL_* constants.  Add logic to
> check for reserved bits, including refusing x2APIC mode if it has not been
> offered to the guest.  Move the guest_{rd,wr}msr_x2apic() declarations into
> vlapic.h which is a more appropriate place for them to live.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>



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