linux-kernel - [PATCH] KVM: svm: remove KVM_QUIRK_CD_NW

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Message-Id: <1436529693-9743-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:01:33 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	guangrong.xiao@...ux.intel.com, joerg.roedel@...e.de
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: svm: remove KVM_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED quirk

We can disable CD unconditionally when there is no assigned device.
KVM now forces guest PAT to all-writeback in that case, so it makes
sense to also force CR0.CD=0.

When there are assigned devices, emulate cache-disabled operation
through the page tables.  This behavior is consistent with VMX,
where CD/NW are not touched by vmentry/vmexit.

Note that buggy firmware that does not clear CD/NW is _seriously_
old: SeaBIOS for example has been doing it since October 2008.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index bbc678a66b18..9b1513065a6a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -1173,6 +1173,9 @@ static u64 svm_get_mt_mask(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gfn, bool is_mmio)
 	if (!is_mmio && !kvm_arch_has_assigned_device(vcpu->kvm))
 		return 0;
 
+	if (kvm_read_cr0(vcpu) & X86_CR0_CD)
+		return _PAGE_NOCACHE;
+
 	mtrr = kvm_mtrr_get_guest_memory_type(vcpu, gfn);
 	return mtrr2protval[mtrr];
 }
@@ -1667,13 +1670,10 @@ static void svm_set_cr0(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr0)
 
 	if (!vcpu->fpu_active)
 		cr0 |= X86_CR0_TS;
-	/*
-	 * re-enable caching here because the QEMU bios
-	 * does not do it - this results in some delay at
-	 * reboot
-	 */
-	if (!(vcpu->kvm->arch.disabled_quirks & KVM_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED))
-		cr0 &= ~(X86_CR0_CD | X86_CR0_NW);
+
+	/* These are emulated via page tables.  */
+	cr0 &= ~(X86_CR0_CD | X86_CR0_NW);
+
 	svm->vmcb->save.cr0 = cr0;
 	mark_dirty(svm->vmcb, VMCB_CR);
 	update_cr0_intercept(svm);
-- 
1.8.3.1

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