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SubjectRe: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: obey guest PAT
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On 26.10.2017 09:13, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> For many years some users of assigned devices have reported worse
> performance on AMD processors with NPT than on AMD without NPT,
> Intel or bare metal.
>
> The reason turned out to be that SVM is discarding the guest PAT
> setting and uses the default (PA0=PA4=WB, PA1=PA5=WT, PA2=PA6=UC-,
> PA3=UC). The guest might be using a different setting, and
> especially might want write combining but isn't getting it
> (instead getting slow UC or UC- accesses).
>
> Thanks a lot to geoff@hostfission.com for noticing the relation
> to the g_pat setting. The patch has been tested also by a bunch
> of people on VFIO users forums.
>
> Fixes: 709ddebf81cb40e3c36c6109a7892e8b93a09464
> Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196409
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> index af256b786a70..af09baa3d736 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> @@ -3626,6 +3626,13 @@ static int svm_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr)
> u32 ecx = msr->index;
> u64 data = msr->data;
> switch (ecx) {
> + case MSR_IA32_CR_PAT:
> + if (!kvm_mtrr_valid(vcpu, MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, data))
> + return 1;
> + vcpu->arch.pat = data;
> + svm->vmcb->save.g_pat = data;
> + mark_dirty(svm->vmcb, VMCB_NPT);
> + break;
> case MSR_IA32_TSC:
> kvm_write_tsc(vcpu, msr);
> break;
>

Although no SVM expert, looking at the way it is handled on VMX, this
looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

--

Thanks,

David

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