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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 2/3] x86, apicv: add virtual x2apic support
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:13:06 -0200
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 05:55:53PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:21:47PM +0000, Zhang, Yang Z wrote:
> > >> +static void vmx_set_msr_bitmap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > >> +{
> > >> +	unsigned long *msr_bitmap;
> > >> +
> > >> +	if (apic_x2apic_mode(vcpu->arch.apic))
> > > 
> > > vcpu->arch.apic can be NULL.
> > Actually, call apic_x2apic_mode to check whether use x2apic msr bitmap is wrong.
> > VCPU uses x2apic but it may not set virtual x2apic mode bit due to TPR shadow not enabled or irqchip not in kernel. Check the virtual x2apic mode bit in vmcs directly should be a better choice. How about the follow code:
> > 
> If TPR shadow it not enabled vmx_msr_bitmap_.*x2apic bitmap will have x2apic MSRs intercepted.

And what is the problem? APIC register virt depends on TPR shadow.