x86/apic: Install an empty physflat_init_apic_ldr

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As the comment already stated, there is no need for setting up LDR (and
DFR) in physflat mode as it remains unused (see SDM, 10.6.2.1).
flat_init_apic_ldr only served as a placeholder for a nop operation so
far, causing no harm.

That will change when running over the Jailhouse hypervisor. Here we
must not touch LDR in a way that destroys the mapping originally set up
by the Linux root cell. Jailhouse enforces this setting in order to
efficiently validate any IPI requests sent by a cell.

Avoid a needless clash caused by flat_init_apic_ldr by installing a true
nop handler.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: jailhouse-dev@googlegroups.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f9867d294cdae4d45ed89d3a2e6adb524f4f6794.1511770314.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com

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Jan Kiszka 2017-11-27 09:11:43 +01:00 • committed by Thomas Gleixner

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arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c

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