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Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 16:32:05 +0200
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Make x2APIC support depend on interrupt remapping
 or guest support
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Il 05/07/2014 09:47, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>
> We are able to use x2APIC mode in the absence of interrupt remapping on
> certain hypervisors. So it if fine to disable IRQ_REMAP without having
> to give up x2APIC support.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index a8f749e..30a9987 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ config SMP
>
>  config X86_X2APIC
>  	bool "Support x2apic"
> -	depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP
> +	depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && (IRQ_REMAP || HYPERVISOR_GUEST)
>  	---help---
>  	  This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature.
>
>
>

Makes sense.

Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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