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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen,
 apic: Setup our own APIC driver and validator for APIC IDs.
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 17:25:55 +0000
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On 02/03/15 17:06, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/xen: Provide a "Xen PV" APIC driver to support >255 VCPUs
> 
> Instead of mangling the default APIC driver, provide a Xen PV guest
> specific one that explicitly provides appropriate methods.
> 
> This allows use to report that all APIC IDs are valid, allowing dom0
> to boot with more than 255 VCPUs.
> 
> Since the probe order of APIC drivers is link dependent, we add in an
> late probe function to change to the Xen PV if it hadn't been done
> during bootup.

Applied to devel/for-linus-4.1, thanks.

I've only given the briefest of smoke-tests.  It would probably be a
good idea to queue this branch for some testing early.

David