Re: [PATCH v6 12/29] xen/x86: allow disabling the emulated local apic

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

El 24/09/15 a les 9.57, Jan Beulich ha escrit:
>>>> On 23.09.15 at 17:45, <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote:
>> El 16/09/15 a les 12.05, Jan Beulich ha escrit:
>>>>>> On 04.09.15 at 14:08, <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote:
>>> Also - aren't all the changes to this file (and perhaps othersfurther
>>> down) bug fixes in their own right?
>>
>> Whether they should be considered bugs or not it's hard to tell. There
>> was no code that executed this paths before with this configuration, and
>> probably nobody considered running HVM guests without an emulated lapic
>> a possibility, so I would argue that they are merely omissions.
> 
> Whether these were active or latent bugs doesn't really matter.
> What I'd prefer is for the code adjustments not directly related to
> the feature suppression you work on to be in their own patch, so
> that the two steps taken can be viewed as two steps. Particularly
> if it later turns out that one or more of those apparent latent bugs
> are found to be actively harming some special case, backporting
> that adjustment without the feature suppression parts would
> become a straightforward option.

Ack, I'm going to split some of the changes in this patch to a pre-patch.

Roger.