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Yan Zhao c9f65a3f2d KVM: VMX: drop IPAT in memtype when CD=1 for KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED 
For KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED is on, remove the IPAT (ignore PAT) bit in
EPT memory types when cache is disabled and non-coherent DMA are present.

To correctly emulate CR0.CD=1, UC + IPAT are required as memtype in EPT.
However, as with commit fb279950ba ("KVM: vmx: obey
KVM_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED"), WB + IPAT are now returned to workaround a BIOS
issue that guest MTRRs are enabled too late. Without this workaround, a
super slow guest boot-up is expected during the pre-guest-MTRR-enabled
period due to UC as the effective memory type for all guest memory.

Absent emulating CR0.CD=1 with UC, it makes no sense to set IPAT when KVM
is honoring the guest memtype.
Removing the IPAT bit in this patch allows effective memory type to honor
PAT values as well, as WB is the weakest memtype. It means if a guest
explicitly claims UC as the memtype in PAT, the effective memory is UC
instead of previous WB. If, for some unknown reason, a guest meets a slow
boot-up issue with the removal of IPAT, it's desired to fix the blamed PAT
in the guest.

Returning guest MTRR type as if CR0.CD=0 is also not preferred because
KVMs ABI for the quirk also requires KVM to force WB memtype regardless of
guest MTRRs to workaround the slow guest boot-up issue.

In the future, honoring guest PAT will also allow KVM to more precisely
zap SPTEs when the effective memtype changes.  E.g. by not forcing WB when
CR0.CD=1, instead of zapping SPTEs when guest MTRRs change, KVM can skip
MTRR-induced zaps if CR0.CD=1 and zap SPTEs for non-WB MTRR ranges when
CR0.CD is toggled (WB MTRR SPTEs can be kept because they're WB regardless
of CR0.CD).

The change of removing IPAT has been verified with normal boot-up time
on old OVMF of commit c9e5618f84b0cb54a9ac2d7604f7b7e7859b45a7 as well,
dated back to Apr 14 2015.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230714065326.20557-1-yan.y.zhao@intel.com
[sean: massage changelog to apply patch without full series]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
History 2023-10-10 17:04:42 -07:00
arch KVM: VMX: drop IPAT in memtype when CD=1 for KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED 2023-10-10 17:04:42 -07:00
block blk-mq: fix tags UAF when shrinking q->nr_hw_queues 2023-09-11 16:17:34 -06:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2023-08-29 11:23:29 -07:00
Documentation Driver core fix for 6.6-rc2 2023-09-16 11:26:52 -07:00
drivers SCSI fixes on 20230916 2023-09-16 11:54:48 -07:00
fs stat: remove no-longer-used helper macros 2023-09-17 10:46:12 -07:00
include KVM/riscv fixes for 6.6, take #1 2023-09-23 05:35:55 -04:00
init workqueue: Changes for v6.6 2023-09-01 16:06:32 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/net: fix iter retargeting for selected buf 2023-09-14 10:12:55 -06:00
ipc Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
kernel Fix a performance regression on large SMT systems, an Intel SMT4 2023-09-17 11:10:23 -07:00
lib linux-kselftest-kunit-6.6-rc2 2023-09-12 09:05:49 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm vm: fix move_vma() memory accounting being off 2023-09-16 15:23:31 -07:00
net kcm: Fix error handling for SOCK_DGRAM in kcm_sendmsg(). 2023-09-14 10:43:51 +02:00
rust Documentation work keeps chugging along; stuff for 6.6 includes: 2023-08-30 20:05:42 -07:00
samples VFIO updates for v6.6-rc1 2023-08-30 20:36:01 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v6.6 2023-09-16 15:27:00 -07:00
security selinux: fix handling of empty opts in selinux_fs_context_submount() 2023-09-12 17:31:08 -04:00
sound sound fixes for 6.6-rc1 2023-09-08 13:07:50 -07:00
tools KVM/riscv fixes for 6.6, take #1 2023-09-23 05:35:55 -04:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: rename binkernel.spec to kernel.spec 2023-07-25 00:59:33 +09:00
.mailmap for-linus-2023083101 2023-09-01 12:31:44 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS This pull-request renames the genpd subsystem to pmdomain. 2023-09-13 14:18:19 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.6-rc2 2023-09-17 14:40:24 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.