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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: LAPIC: Don't need to clear IPI delivery status in x2apic mode
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> On Mar 31, 2020, at 11:46 PM, Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Cc more people,
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 08:35, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 01/04/20 02:19, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>>> - /* No delay here, so we always clear the pending bit */
>>> - val &= ~(1 << 12);
>>> + /* Immediately clear Delivery Status in xAPIC mode */
>>> + if (!apic_x2apic_mode(apic))
>>> + val &= ~(1 << 12);
>>
>> This adds a conditional, and the old behavior was valid according to the
>> SDM: "software should not assume the value returned by reading the ICR
>> is the last written value".
>
> Nadav, Sean, what do you think?

I do not know. But if you write a KVM unit-test, I can run it on bare-metal
and give you feedback about how it behaves.

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