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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Saurabh Sengar <ssengar@linux.microsoft.com>,
	kys@microsoft.com, haiyangz@microsoft.com, wei.liu@kernel.org,
	decui@microsoft.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org,
	mikelley@microsoft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/hyperv: add noop functions to x86_init mpparse functions
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 08:33:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <442441b3-803e-0c1f-ff1b-5a49ecc2e423@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1685709712-13752-1-git-send-email-ssengar@linux.microsoft.com>

On 6/2/23 05:41, Saurabh Sengar wrote:
> In !ACPI system, there is no way to disable CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE.
> When CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE is enabled for VTL2, the kernel will
> scan low memory looking for MP tables. Don't allow this, because
> low memory is controlled by VTL0 and may contain actual valid
> tables for VTL0, which can confuse the VTL2 kernel.

Do you folks have a writeup of this VTL* setup anywhere?  I'm struggling
to grasp why VTL0 and VTL2 share the same address space and why they
would get confused by each other's data structures.

$ grep -r VTL[02] Documentation/
$

Either way, this is way better than the #ifdefs.  But the changelog is
kinda just gibberish to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-02 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-02 12:41 [PATCH] x86/hyperv: add noop functions to x86_init mpparse functions Saurabh Sengar
2023-06-02 15:33 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2023-06-02 16:17   ` Wei Liu
2023-06-02 16:21     ` Dave Hansen
2023-06-02 16:22 ` Wei Liu
2023-06-02 16:27   ` [EXTERNAL] " Saurabh Singh Sengar

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