Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v2 00/10] SMP Support for x86 UEFI Tests

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On 4/13/22 9:57 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022, Varad Gautam wrote:
>> This series brings multi-vcpu support to UEFI tests on x86.
>>
>> Most of the necessary AP bringup code already exists within kvm-unit-tests'
>> cstart64.S, and has now been either rewritten in C or moved to a common location
>> to be shared between EFI and non-EFI test builds.
>>
>> A call gate is used to transition from 16-bit to 32-bit mode, since EFI may
>> not load the 32-bit entrypoint low enough to be reachable from the SIPI vector.
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - rebase onto kvm-unit-tests@1a4529ce83 + seanjc's percpu apic_ops series [1].
> 
> Thanks for taking on the rebase pain, I appreciate it!
> 
> Lots of comments, but mostly minor things to (hopefully) improve readability.  I
> belive the mixup with 32-bit targets is the only thing that might get painful.
> 

I've sent out a v3 at [1] taking in most of your comments. I've only left out the
changes to non-EFI 32-bit asm bringup code (x86/start32.S) and some renames which
I think would better go into a different series to keep this one easier to follow.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20220426114352.1262-1-varad.gautam@xxxxxxxx/

Thanks,
Varad




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