Thread (110 messages) 110 messages, 10 authors, 2015-04-30

Re: [PATCH v1 02/47] x86: mtrr: generalize run time disabling of MTRR

From: Luis R. Rodriguez <hidden>
Date: 2015-04-02 21:49:20
Also in: lkml, xen-devel
Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 12:56:30AM +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 02:40:17PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
quoted
On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 16:17 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
 :
quoted
@@ -734,6 +742,7 @@ void __init mtrr_bp_init(void)
 	}
 
 	if (mtrr_if) {
+		mtrr_enabled = true;
 		set_num_var_ranges();
 		init_table();
 		if (use_intel()) {
                        get_mtrr_state();

After setting mtrr_enabled to true, get_mtrr_state() reads
MSR_MTRRdefType and sets 'mtrr_state.enabled', which also indicates if
MTRRs are enabled or not on the system.  So, potentially, we could have
a case that mtrr_enabled is set to true, but mtrr_state.enabled is set
to disabled when MTRRs are disabled by BIOS.
Thanks for the review, in this case then we should update mtrr_enabled to false.
quoted
ps.
I recently cleaned up this part of the MTRR code in the patch below,
which is currently available in the -mm & -next trees.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/24/1063
Great I will rebase and work with that and try to address this
consideration you have raised.
OK I'll mesh in this change as well in my next respin:
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
index a83f27a..ecf7cb9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ static void __init print_mtrr_state(void)
 }
 
 /* Grab all of the MTRR state for this CPU into *state */
-void __init get_mtrr_state(void)
+bool __init get_mtrr_state(void)
 {
 	struct mtrr_var_range *vrs;
 	unsigned long flags;
@@ -482,6 +482,8 @@ void __init get_mtrr_state(void)
 
 	post_set();
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
+
+	return !!mtrr_state.enabled;
 }
 
 /* Some BIOS's are messed up and don't set all MTRRs the same! */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
index ea5f363..f96195e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
@@ -734,22 +742,25 @@ void __init mtrr_bp_init(void)
 	}
 
 	if (mtrr_if) {
+		mtrr_enabled = true;
 		set_num_var_ranges();
 		init_table();
 		if (use_intel()) {
-			get_mtrr_state();
+			/* BIOS may override */
+			mtrr_enabled = get_mtrr_state();
 
 			if (mtrr_cleanup(phys_addr)) {
 				changed_by_mtrr_cleanup = 1;
@@ -745,11 +755,14 @@ void __init mtrr_bp_init(void)
                        }
                }
        }
+
+       if (!mtrr_enabled)
+               pr_info("mtrr: system does not support MTRR\n");
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h
index df5e41f..951884d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ void set_mtrr_prepare_save(struct set_mtrr_context *ctxt);
 
 void fill_mtrr_var_range(unsigned int index,
 		u32 base_lo, u32 base_hi, u32 mask_lo, u32 mask_hi);
-void get_mtrr_state(void);
+bool get_mtrr_state(void);
 
 extern void set_mtrr_ops(const struct mtrr_ops *ops);
 
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