Re: [PATCH] x86: Make x2APIC support depend on interrupt remapping or guest support

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Sun Jul 06 2014 - 11:13:02 EST


On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 09:47:54AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We are able to use x2APIC mode in the absence of interrupt remapping on
> certain hypervisors. So it if fine to disable IRQ_REMAP without having
> to give up x2APIC support.
FWIW I did similar thing back when I added x2apic to KVM:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2009-06/msg14579.html
But was advised against it.

>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index a8f749e..30a9987 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ config SMP
>
> config X86_X2APIC
> bool "Support x2apic"
> - depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP
> + depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && (IRQ_REMAP || HYPERVISOR_GUEST)
> ---help---
> This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature.
>
>
>



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Gleb.
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