2020-09-11 19:29:19

by Krish Sadhukhan

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Subject: [PATCH 4/4 v3] KVM: SVM: Don't flush cache if hardware enforces cache coherency across encryption domains

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 <[email protected]>
---
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++) {
--
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