Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Krish Sadhukhan <> | Subject | [PATCH 4/4 v3] KVM: SVM: Don't flush cache if hardware enforces cache coherency across encryption domains | Date | Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:26:01 +0000 |
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In some hardware implementations, coherency between the encrypted and unencrypted mappings of the same physical page in a VM is enforced. In such a system, it is not required for software to flush the VM's page from all CPU caches in the system prior to changing the value of the C-bit for the page.
Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c index 402dc4234e39..8aa2209f2637 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c @@ -384,7 +384,8 @@ static void sev_clflush_pages(struct page *pages[], unsigned long npages) uint8_t *page_virtual; unsigned long i; - if (npages == 0 || pages == NULL) + if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HW_CACHE_COHERENCY) || npages == 0 || + pages == NULL) return; for (i = 0; i < npages; i++) { -- 2.18.4
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