Re: [PATCH] x86/apic: Don't disable x2APIC if locked

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Aug 10 2022 - 19:09:07 EST


On 8/10/22 16:03, Daniel Sneddon wrote:
> On 8/10/22 15:06, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> So this affects already deployed systems and we have to
>>
>> - backport the x2apic lock changes
>>
>> - provide proper diagnostics
>>
>> - make SGX and TDX depend on X2APIC support
> I'll add the comments Dave mentioned earlier, and will make SGX and TDX depend
> on X2APIC since that makes sense regardless of what hw ends up with this change.
> Unless we want to get rid of CONFIG_X86_X2APIC like Dave mentioned?

The TDX guest support in the kernel isn't _actually_ related to this*.
It's the host-side support that matters and that isn't merged yet. I've
cc'd Kai so he doesn't forget to do this.

I agree on the SGX side, though.

* TDX guest support already has this dependency, but it's for unrelated
reasons:

config INTEL_TDX_GUEST
bool "Intel TDX (Trust Domain Extensions) - Guest Support"
depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_INTEL
depends on X86_X2APIC