Am 2015-04-29 um 18:47 schrieb Bandan Das: > > Why do we allow writes to APIC_ID ? On all _newer_ processors, it's > read only. The spec doesn't explicitly mention it though, or atleast > I couldn't find it. Does userspace have a reason to modify it ? The APIC ID is read-only for x2APIC. It remains R/W for xAPIC. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html