Re: [PATCH] x86/acpi/boot: Correct acpi_is_processor_usable() check again

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 08:30:27AM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > +	/*
> > +	 * QEMU expects legacy "Enabled=0" LAPIC entries to be counted as usable
> > +	 * in order to support CPU hotplug in guests.
> > +	 */
> 
> I think it would be good to amend this comment to indicate that the behavior
> of the "enabled bit" changed and that QEMU follows the newer behavior but
> advertises the older version.

This is just there to hint why we're doing this fix to the kernel - i.e.,
try to salvage an already shit situation. Any other deviation from the spec is
not the kernel's problem.

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    Boris.

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