Re: [PART1 RFC v2 05/10] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support

From	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PART1 RFC v2 05/10] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support
Date	2016-03-16 12:20 +0100
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On 16/03/2016 09:21, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:
>> Strictly speaking the address of the 0xFEE00000 translation is
>> unnecessary and it could be all zeroes, but I suggest that you set up an
>> APIC access page like Intel does (4k only), using the special memslot.
>> The AVIC backing page can then point to lapic->regs.
> 
> Ahh... you are right, this works also. Thanks for the pointer. I'm
> fixing this, doing some more testing, and cleaning up the code. This has
> simplify the init logic quite a bit.

Awesome, thanks.

Paolo

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[PART1 RFC v2 00/10] KVM: x86: Introduce SVM AVIC support Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-03-04 21:50 +0100
  [PART1 RFC v2 03/10] svm: Introduce new AVIC VMCB registers Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-03-04 21:50 +0100
    Re: [PART1 RFC v2 03/10] svm: Introduce new AVIC VMCB registers Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-07 16:50 +0100
      Re: [PART1 RFC v2 03/10] svm: Introduce new AVIC VMCB registers Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-03-14 08:50 +0100
        Re: [PART1 RFC v2 03/10] svm: Introduce new AVIC VMCB registers Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-14 13:30 +0100
          Re: [PART1 RFC v2 03/10] svm: Introduce new AVIC VMCB registers Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-03-15 14:00 +0100
  [PART1 RFC v2 08/10] svm: Do not expose x2APIC when enable AVIC Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-03-04 21:50 +0100
  [PART1 RFC v2 05/10] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-03-04 21:50 +0100
    Re: [PART1 RFC v2 05/10] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-07 17:50 +0100
      Re: [PART1 RFC v2 05/10] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-03-15 18:20 +0100
        Re: [PART1 RFC v2 05/10] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-15 18:30 +0100
          Re: [PART1 RFC v2 05/10] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-03-16 07:30 +0100
            Re: [PART1 RFC v2 05/10] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-16 08:30 +0100
              Re: [PART1 RFC v2 05/10] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-03-16 09:30 +0100
                Re: [PART1 RFC v2 05/10] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-16 12:20 +0100
  [PART1 RFC v2 01/10] KVM: x86: Misc LAPIC changes to exposes helper functions Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-03-04 22:00 +0100
  [PART1 RFC v2 04/10] svm: clean up V_TPR, V_IRQ, V_INTR_PRIO, and V_INTR_MASKING Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-03-04 22:00 +0100
  [PART1 RFC v2 07/10] svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-03-04 22:00 +0100
    Re: [PART1 RFC v2 07/10] svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-07 17:00 +0100
      Re: [PART1 RFC v2 07/10] svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2016-03-08 23:10 +0100
        Re: [PART1 RFC v2 07/10] svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-09 12:00 +0100
    Re: [PART1 RFC v2 07/10] svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2016-03-09 22:00 +0100
      Re: [PART1 RFC v2 07/10] svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2016-03-10 20:40 +0100
        Re: [PART1 RFC v2 07/10] svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-10 21:00 +0100
          Re: [PART1 RFC v2 07/10] svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2016-03-10 21:50 +0100
      Re: [PART1 RFC v2 07/10] svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-03-17 05:00 +0100
        Re: [PART1 RFC v2 07/10] svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-17 10:40 +0100

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