From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/MTRR: constrain AP sync and BSP restore
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:53:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z-UuG2QW56iSfeFj@macbook.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56fbfae0-aac7-4841-ab3c-a7e00dda3744@suse.com>
On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 10:54:23AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> mtrr_set_all() has quite a bit of overhead, which is entirely useless
> when set_mtrr_state() really does nothing. Furthermore, with
> mtrr_state.def_type never initialized from hardware, post_set()'s
> unconditional writing of the MSR means would leave us running in UC
> mode after the sync.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/mtrr/main.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/mtrr/main.c
> @@ -605,13 +605,15 @@ void mtrr_aps_sync_begin(void)
>
> void mtrr_aps_sync_end(void)
> {
> - set_mtrr(~0U, 0, 0, 0);
> + if (mtrr_if)
> + set_mtrr(~0U, 0, 0, 0);
> hold_mtrr_updates_on_aps = 0;
> }
>
> void mtrr_bp_restore(void)
Maybe I'm blind, but I cannot find any caller to mtrr_bp_restore()?
Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks, Roger.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-27 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-27 9:54 [PATCH] x86/MTRR: constrain AP sync and BSP restore Jan Beulich
2025-03-27 10:53 ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2025-03-27 11:03 ` Jan Beulich
2025-03-27 15:05 ` Andrew Cooper
2025-03-27 16:31 ` Roger Pau Monné
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