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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] APIC MSRs query
On 17/05/11 14:43, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 17.05.11 at 15:25, Andrew Cooper<andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
I am currently cleaning up the APIC code for the sake of
shutdown/reboot/crashdump and have a query about the (modified for
brevity) snippet of code:
uint64_t msr_content;
rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_APICBASE, msr_content);
msr_content |= MSR_IA32_APICBASE_ENABLE | MSR_IA32_APICBASE_EXTD;
msr_content = (uint32_t)msr_content;
wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_APICBASE, msr_content);
which is added into apic.c in changeset b622e411eef8, and has propagated
elsewhere in the codebase during subsequent cleanups etc.
The MP spec and x2apic spec states that bits [35:12] of
MSR_IA32_APICBASE is the base APIC MMIO address. Is there reason why
the code (almost always) clears the top 4 bits, or is it just an
overlooked mistake?
I think this is a benign mistake. Benign because I don't think there is
a meaningful (to Xen at least) number of systems that would not
have their LAPIC at the default address (which fits in 32 bits).
Jan
Ok - I will fix this up in my cleanup.
--
Andrew Cooper - Dom0 Kernel Engineer, Citrix XenServer
T: +44 (0)1223 225 900, http://www.citrix.com
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