The latter of the two changes was on my mental todo list for a very long time. With Julien reporting a problem with the handling of this page, I finally felt urged to make a patch. As it turns out, for addressing this problem only the first of the now split pages is needed, and the second can be further discussed and considered for 4.16.
1: delay p2m insertion of APIC access page 2: use a single, global APIC access page Jan