[PATCH v2 2/2] x86/defconfig: Add CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP

From: Shashank Balaji

Date: Fri Mar 06 2026 - 00:57:59 EST


x2apic is enabled in the defconfig, and interrupt remapping is an architectural
dependency of x2apic as per the Intel SDM:

Routing of device interrupts to local APIC units operating in x2APIC
mode requires use of the interrupt-remapping architecture specified in
the Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (Revision 1.3
and/or later versions).

Enable CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP in defconfig so that a defconfig kernel on bare metal
actually uses x2apic.

Co-developed-by: Rahul Bukte <rahul.bukte@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rahul Bukte <rahul.bukte@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shashank Balaji <shashank.mahadasyam@xxxxxxxx>

---

Changes in v2:
- Mention the SDM (based on Andrew and Jan's discussion)
---
arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig b/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig
index 7d7310cdf8b0..269f7d808be4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ CONFIG_EEEPC_LAPTOP=y
CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y
CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU=y
# CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU_DEFAULT_ON is not set
+CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP=y
CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y

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