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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86/xen: Remove redundant config dependency on X86_LOCAL_APIC
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 09:43:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cf26aa7d-2d67-4328-b441-a1c9b7bcd925@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e7d500e-7403-4a64-8e4d-50f1031716ba@suse.com>

On 05/08/2026 9:40 am, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 05.08.2026 10:37, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 05.08.2026 10:21, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> CONFIG_XEN depends on CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC already, so the dependency
>>> of CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM on CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC can be dropped.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> Hmm, looking at patch 2 I wonder: Isn't it XEN's dependency which wants
> dropping? XEN_PV shouldn't require X86_LOCAL_APIC, should it?

In Linux terms, XEN_PV does need X86_LOCAL_APIC.

While the PV guest doesn't have an APIC directly, other areas (parsing
the ACPI tables, configuring device interrupts) require Linux to think
it's on a normal APIC-like system.

~Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-05  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-05  8:21 [PATCH 0/4] xen: cleanup config files Juergen Gross
2026-08-05  8:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86/xen: Remove redundant config dependency on X86_LOCAL_APIC Juergen Gross
2026-08-05  8:37   ` Jan Beulich
2026-08-05  8:40     ` Jan Beulich
2026-08-05  8:43       ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2026-08-05 22:30   ` Stefano Stabellini
2026-08-05  8:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] xen: Drop CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM Juergen Gross
2026-08-05  8:28   ` Andrew Cooper
2026-08-05  8:36     ` Juergen Gross
2026-08-06  1:51       ` Jason Andryuk
2026-08-05 22:45   ` Stefano Stabellini
2026-08-05  8:21 ` [PATCH 3/4] xen: Drop CONFIG_XEN_AUTO_XLATE Juergen Gross
2026-08-05  8:42   ` Jan Beulich
2026-08-05  8:56     ` Juergen Gross
2026-08-05 22:47   ` Stefano Stabellini
2026-08-05  8:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86/xen: Drop CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM_SMP Juergen Gross
2026-08-05  8:44   ` Jan Beulich
2026-08-05  8:55     ` Juergen Gross
2026-08-05  9:04       ` Jan Beulich
2026-08-05  9:44         ` Jürgen Groß
2026-08-05  9:55           ` Jan Beulich
2026-08-05 22:49   ` Stefano Stabellini

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