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Date:   Fri, 15 Apr 2022 14:39:48 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To:     Zeng Guang <guang.zeng@intel.com>
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        Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 6/9] KVM: x86: lapic: don't allow to change APIC ID
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, Zeng Guang wrote:
> From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
> 
> No normal guest has any reason to change physical APIC IDs, and
> allowing this introduces bugs into APIC acceleration code.
> 
> And Intel recent hardware just ignores writes to APIC_ID in
> xAPIC mode. More background can be found at:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yfw5ddGNOnDqxMLs@google.com/
> 
> Looks there is no much value to support writable xAPIC ID in
> guest except supporting some old and crazy use cases which
> probably would fail on real hardware. So, make xAPIC ID
> read-only for KVM guests.

AFAIK, the plan is to add a capability to let userspace opt-in to a fully read-only
APIC ID[*], but I haven't seen patches...

Maxim?

[*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c903e82ed2a1e98f66910c35b5aabdcf56e08e72.camel@redhat.com