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Revert "KVM: x86: Open code necessary bits of kvm_lapic_set_base() at vCPU RESET"

      Revert a change to open code bits of kvm_lapic_set_base() when emulating
APIC RESET to fix an apic_hw_disabled underflow bug due to arch.apic_base
and apic_hw_disabled being unsyncrhonized when the APIC is created.  If
kvm_arch_vcpu_create() fails after creating the APIC, kvm_free_lapic()
will see the initialized-to-zero vcpu->arch.apic_base and decrement
apic_hw_disabled without KVM ever having incremented apic_hw_disabled.

Using kvm_lapic_set_base() in kvm_lapic_reset() is also desirable for a
potential future where KVM supports RESET outside of vCPU creation, in
which case all the side effects of kvm_lapic_set_base() are needed, e.g.
to handle the transition from x2APIC => xAPIC.

Alternatively, KVM could temporarily increment apic_hw_disabled (and call
kvm_lapic_set_base() at RESET), but that's a waste of cycles and would
impact the performance of other vCPUs and VMs.  The other subtle side
effect is
    
commit f7d8a19f9a056a05c5c509fa65af472a322abfee
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