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Message-ID: <5e75d8ed-6950-1c16-02eb-1894b90bfffc@suse.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Apr 2023 12:25:01 +0200
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 07/15] x86/mtrr: replace vendor tests in MTRR code

On 12.04.23 10:45, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2023 at 08:36:44AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> Modern CPUs all share the same MTRR interface implemented via
>> generic_mtrr_ops.
>>
>> At several places in MTRR code this generic interface is deduced via
>> is_cpu(INTEL) tests, which is only working due to X86_VENDOR_INTEL
>> being 0 (the is_cpu() macro is testing mtrr_if->vendor, which isn't
>> explicitly set in generic_mtrr_ops).
>>
>> Fix that by replacing the is_cpu(INTEL) tests with testing for mtrr_if
>> to be &generic_mtrr_ops.
> 
> Replace with:
> 
> "Test the generic CPU feature X86_FEATURE_MTRR instead."
> 
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.c
>> index 1c19d67ddab3..46aae69d259e 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.c
>> @@ -108,14 +108,12 @@ static int have_wrcomb(void)
>>   /*  This function returns the number of variable MTRRs  */
>>   static void __init set_num_var_ranges(bool use_generic)
>>   {
>> -	unsigned long config = 0, dummy;
>> +	unsigned long config, dummy;
>>   
>>   	if (use_generic)
>>   		rdmsr(MSR_MTRRcap, config, dummy);
>> -	else if (is_cpu(AMD) || is_cpu(HYGON))
>> -		config = 2;
>> -	else if (is_cpu(CYRIX) || is_cpu(CENTAUR))
>> -		config = 8;
>> +	else
>> +		config = mtrr_if->var_regs;
>>   
>>   	num_var_ranges = config & MTRR_CONFIG_NUM_VAR_MASK;
>>   }
> 
>  From previous review which you've missed to incorporate:
> 
> "Since you're touching this function, you might simply expand its body in
> its only call site in mtrr_bp_init(), put a comment above the expanded
> code and remove that function.
> 
> That is, if we're going to do the ->var_regs thing."
> 

Oh, sorry. Will do it.


Juergen

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