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To: "Naveen N Rao (AMD)" <naveen@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov
 <bp@alien8.de>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Nikunj A Dadhania
 <nikunj@amd.com>, Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>, Bharata B Rao
 <bharata@amd.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] x86/apic: Introduce a variable to track the
 number of EILVT registers
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:42:35 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 21 2026 at 13:33, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
>  
> +extern unsigned int apic_eilvt_count;

Please do not create yet another global variable. It's an APIC property,
so struct apic is the obvious place for it, no?

Thanks,

        tglx