On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 11/25/2014 07:06 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > > If the hardware supports APIC virtualization we may decide not to use
> > > pirqs
> > > and instead use APIC/x2APIC directly, meaning that we don't want to set
> > > x86_msi.setup_msi_irqs and x86_msi.teardown_msi_irq to Xen-specific
> > > routines.
> > > However, x2APIC is not set up by the time pci_xen_hvm_init() is called so
> > > we
> > > need to postpone setting these ops until later, when we know which APIC
> > > mode
> > > is used.
> > > 
> > > (Note that currently x2APIC is never initialized on HVM guests. This may
> > > change in the future)
> > I take that this is safe because no MSIs can be received at this point
> > (apic_post_init), right?
> 
> 
> Yes. At the time apic_post_init() is called PCI has not been probed yet.

Please add that to the commit message.

Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabell...@eu.citrix.com>

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