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Andrew Cooper e5ac68a011 x86/hvm: Revert per-domain APIC acceleration support
I was really hoping to avoid this, but its now too late in the 4.17 freeze and
we still don't have working fixes.

The in-Xen calculations for assistance capabilities are buggy.  For the
avoidance of doubt, the original intention was to be able to control every
aspect of a APIC acceleration so we could comprehensively test Xen's support,
as it has proved to be buggy time and time again.

Even after a protracted discussion on what the new API ought to mean, attempts
to apply it to the existing logic have been unsuccessful, proving that the
API/ABI is too complicated for most people to reason about.

This reverts most of:
  2ce11ce249
  6b2b9b3405

leaving in place the non-APIC specific changes (minimal as they are).

This takes us back to the behaviour of Xen 4.16 where APIC acceleration is
configured on a per system basis.

This work will be revisted in due course.

Fixes: 2ce11ce249 ("x86/HVM: allow per-domain usage of hardware virtualized APIC")
Fixes: 6b2b9b3405 ("x86: report Interrupt Controller Virtualization capabilities")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
2022-11-17 16:51:51 +00:00
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