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authorMichael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>2020-10-26 07:52:52 -0700
committerWei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>2020-10-26 16:28:06 +0000
commitdbf563eee0b8cc056744514d91c5ffc2fa6c0982 (patch)
treea09f772a2e184d642a7d8726d6373e6a2b925f5d /arch
parent2c3bd2a5c86fe744e8377733c5e511a5ca1e14f5 (diff)
downloadlinux-dbf563eee0b8cc056744514d91c5ffc2fa6c0982.tar.bz2
x86/hyperv: Clarify comment on x2apic mode
The comment about Hyper-V accessors is unclear regarding their potential use in x2apic mode, as is the associated commit message in e211288b72f1. Clarify that while the architectural and synthetic MSRs are equivalent in x2apic mode, the full set of xapic accessors cannot be used because of register layout differences. Fixes: e211288b72f1 ("x86/hyperv: Make vapic support x2apic mode") Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1603723972-81303-1-git-send-email-mikelley@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/hyperv/hv_apic.c14
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_apic.c b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_apic.c
index 40e0e322161d..284e73661a18 100644
--- a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_apic.c
@@ -273,11 +273,15 @@ void __init hv_apic_init(void)
pr_info("Hyper-V: Using enlightened APIC (%s mode)",
x2apic_enabled() ? "x2apic" : "xapic");
/*
- * With x2apic, architectural x2apic MSRs are equivalent to the
- * respective synthetic MSRs, so there's no need to override
- * the apic accessors. The only exception is
- * hv_apic_eoi_write, because it benefits from lazy EOI when
- * available, but it works for both xapic and x2apic modes.
+ * When in x2apic mode, don't use the Hyper-V specific APIC
+ * accessors since the field layout in the ICR register is
+ * different in x2apic mode. Furthermore, the architectural
+ * x2apic MSRs function just as well as the Hyper-V
+ * synthetic APIC MSRs, so there's no benefit in having
+ * separate Hyper-V accessors for x2apic mode. The only
+ * exception is hv_apic_eoi_write, because it benefits from
+ * lazy EOI when available, but the same accessor works for
+ * both xapic and x2apic because the field layout is the same.
*/
apic_set_eoi_write(hv_apic_eoi_write);
if (!x2apic_enabled()) {