Re: [Xen-devel] L1[0x1fb] = 0000000000000000 which faults on one type of machine but on another works?

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>]

On 03/17/2011 09:41 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> I don't remember if it was suggested to hpa/ingo/tglx whether we could
> provide another 'struct apic' that would be Xen specific and the apic->probe()
> would either provide a struct mostly filled with dummy functions that return
> nothing, or the Xen apic->probe() function would over-write the current
> 'apic->read,write, etc' with the xen dummy functions.

I still maintain the "proper fix" is to just turn off the APIC CPU
capability.  There is no local apic, and trying to pretend otherwise
just leads to a mass of hacks.

But of course, that's not particularly easy in practice...

    J


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