KVM: VMX: drop IPAT in memtype when CD=1 for KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED

For KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED is on, remove the IPAT (ignore PAT) bit in
EPT memory types when cache is disabled and non-coherent DMA are present.

To correctly emulate CR0.CD=1, UC + IPAT are required as memtype in EPT.
However, as with commit fb279950ba02 ("KVM: vmx: obey
KVM_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED"), WB + IPAT are now returned to workaround a BIOS
issue that guest MTRRs are enabled too late. Without this workaround, a
super slow guest boot-up is expected during the pre-guest-MTRR-enabled
period due to UC as the effective memory type for all guest memory.

Absent emulating CR0.CD=1 with UC, it makes no sense to set IPAT when KVM
is honoring the guest memtype.
Removing the IPAT bit in this patch allows effective memory type to honor
PAT values as well, as WB is the weakest memtype. It means if a guest
explicitly claims UC as the memtype in PAT, the effective memory is UC
instead of previous WB. If, for some unknown reason, a guest meets a slow
boot-up issue with the removal of IPAT, it's desired to fix the blamed PAT
in the guest.

Returning guest MTRR type as if CR0.CD=0 is also not preferred because
KVMs ABI for the quirk also requires KVM to force WB memtype regardless of
guest MTRRs to workaround the slow guest boot-up issue.

In the future, honoring guest PAT will also allow KVM to more precisely
zap SPTEs when the effective memtype changes.  E.g. by not forcing WB when
CR0.CD=1, instead of zapping SPTEs when guest MTRRs change, KVM can skip
MTRR-induced zaps if CR0.CD=1 and zap SPTEs for non-WB MTRR ranges when
CR0.CD is toggled (WB MTRR SPTEs can be kept because they're WB regardless
of CR0.CD).

The change of removing IPAT has been verified with normal boot-up time
on old OVMF of commit c9e5618f84b0cb54a9ac2d7604f7b7e7859b45a7 as well,
dated back to Apr 14 2015.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230714065326.20557-1-yan.y.zhao@intel.com
[sean: massage changelog to apply patch without full series]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 72e3943f3693..36724e839269 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -7579,8 +7579,6 @@ static int vmx_vm_init(struct kvm *kvm)
 
 static u8 vmx_get_mt_mask(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gfn, bool is_mmio)
 {
-	u8 cache;
-
 	/* We wanted to honor guest CD/MTRR/PAT, but doing so could result in
 	 * memory aliases with conflicting memory types and sometimes MCEs.
 	 * We have to be careful as to what are honored and when.
@@ -7607,11 +7605,10 @@ static u8 vmx_get_mt_mask(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gfn, bool is_mmio)
 
 	if (kvm_read_cr0_bits(vcpu, X86_CR0_CD)) {
 		if (kvm_check_has_quirk(vcpu->kvm, KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED))
-			cache = MTRR_TYPE_WRBACK;
+			return MTRR_TYPE_WRBACK << VMX_EPT_MT_EPTE_SHIFT;
 		else
-			cache = MTRR_TYPE_UNCACHABLE;
-
-		return (cache << VMX_EPT_MT_EPTE_SHIFT) | VMX_EPT_IPAT_BIT;
+			return (MTRR_TYPE_UNCACHABLE << VMX_EPT_MT_EPTE_SHIFT) |
+				VMX_EPT_IPAT_BIT;
 	}
 
 	return kvm_mtrr_get_guest_memory_type(vcpu, gfn) << VMX_EPT_MT_EPTE_SHIFT;