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Re: [PATCH 5/8] x86/pv: allow reading APIC_BASE MSR


  • To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:31:38 +0100
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On 17/08/2020 16:57, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> Linux PV guests will attempt to read the APIC_BASE MSR, so just report
> a default value to make Linux happy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

This is a massive layering violation, but we're a decade too late to fix
it :(



 


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