MTRRs have no effect on the memory type used for an access to GPA.
This patch updates the EPT MT field according to the memory type
selected by MTRRs, which combines with the PAT, PCD and PWT bits
from the guest paging structures to determine the effective memory type
Signed-off-by: bliu11 <baohong.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Chen CJ <jason.cj.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Linux commit edfe63ec97ed ("x86/mtrr: Fix Xorg crashes in Qemu sessions")
disables PAT feature if MTRR is not enabled. This patch does partial
emulation of MTRR to prevent this from happening: enable fixed-range
MTRRs and disable virable range MTRRs
By default IA32_PAT MSR (SDM Vol3 11.12.4, Table 11-12) doesn't include
'WC' type. If MTRR is disabled from the guests, Linux doesn't allow
writing IA32_PAT MSR so WC type can't be enabled. This creates some
performance issues for certian applications that rely on WC memory type.
Implementation summary:
- Enable MTRR feature: MTRRdefType.E=1
- Enable fixed range MTRRs: MTRRCAP.fix=1, MTRRdefType.FE=1
- For simplicity, disable variable range MTRRs: MTRRCAP.vcnt=0.
It's expected that this bit is honored by the guests and they won't
change the guest memory type through variable MTRRs.
Signed-off-by: bliu11 <baohong.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Chen CJ <jason.cj.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
