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From:   Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 1 Apr 2020 14:46:41 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: LAPIC: Don't need to clear IPI delivery
 status in x2apic mode
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
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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?

    Wanpeng