Re: [PATCH 3/3 v4] KVM: SVM: Don't flush cache if hardware enforces cache coherency across encryption domains

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 18/09/20 09:56, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 09:20:38PM +0000, Krish Sadhukhan wrote:
>> 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 7bf7bf734979..3c9a45efdd4d 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_SME_COHERENT) || npages == 0 ||
>> +	    pages == NULL)
>>  		return;
>>  
>>  	for (i = 0; i < npages; i++) {
>> -- 
> 
> Took the first two, Paolo lemme know if I should route this one through
> tip too.
> 
> Thx.
> 

Yeah, it's innocuous enough as far as conflicts are concerned.

Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Paolo