mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: "kvm list" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/kvm/lapic: always disable MMIO interface in x2APIC mode
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 19:00:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3b7080f-b788-048b-6f3a-e1a90e4206b7@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALMp9eSaiw7wMMhzKZQpM141h6zEz=shu5P++BerbQBTVyFdYA@mail.gmail.com>

On 27/07/2018 18:48, Jim Mattson wrote:
> On a physical machine, I would expect the default local APIC page to
> fall in the PCI hole, so it would be correct to sink writes and to
> return all ones for reads. Does qemu implement a PCI hole, and does
> this address fall into it?

It does implement a PCI hole, but when using the kernel LAPIC it expects
that only devices write to that range; therefore that address doesn't
fall into the PCI hole, and instead it generates an MSIs.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-27 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-27 14:44 Vitaly Kuznetsov
2018-07-27 16:48 ` Jim Mattson
2018-07-27 17:00   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2018-07-30  9:14     ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2018-08-02 11:54       ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-08-02 13:30         ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2018-08-02 13:34           ` Paolo Bonzini

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=e3b7080f-b788-048b-6f3a-e1a90e4206b7@redhat.com \
    --to=pbonzini@redhat.com \
    --cc=jmattson@google.com \
    --cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=rkrcmar@redhat.com \
    --cc=vkuznets@redhat.com \
    --cc=x86@kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®