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From: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: QEMU/KVM: make kvm_arch_load_regs() aware of in
	kernel APIC
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:23:56 -0500
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* Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> [2008-04-03 18:22]:
> 
> kvm_arch_load_regs() might load APIC base and APIC TPR from the
> uninitialized userspace APIC emulation.
> 
> This happened when running X11 on SMP guest in my case, disabling the
> APIC for vcpu3:
> 
> vcpu not ready for apic_round_robin
> vcpu not ready for apic_round_robin
> vcpu not ready for apic_round_robin

With this patch applied, I can start up my fedora8 guest with SMP and I
no longer get X11 video corruption.

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Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
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