On 28/10/20 22:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Avoid this by renaming the global 'apic' variable to the more descriptive > 'x86_system_apic'. It was originally called 'genapic', but both that > and the current 'apic' seem to be a little overly generic for a global > variable. The 'apic' affects only the current CPU, so one of 'x86_local_apic', 'x86_lapic' or 'x86_apic' is probably preferrable. I don't have huge objections to renaming 'apic' variables and arguments in KVM to 'lapic'. I do agree with Sean however that it's going to break again very soon. Paolo