x86/xen: Set MTRR state when running as Xen PV initial domain
When running as Xen PV initial domain (aka dom0), MTRRs are disabled by the hypervisor, but the system should nevertheless use correct cache memory types. This has always kind of worked, as disabled MTRRs resulted in disabled PAT, too, so that the kernel avoided code paths resulting in inconsistencies. This bypassed all of the sanity checks the kernel is doing with enabled MTRRs in order to avoid memory mappings with conflicting memory types. This has been changed recently, leading to PAT being accepted to be enabled, while MTRRs stayed disabled. The result is that mtrr_type_lookup() no longer is accepting all memory type requests, but started to return WB even if UC- was requested. This led to driver failures during initialization of some devices. In reality MTRRs are still in effect, but they are under complete control of the Xen hypervisor. It is possible, however, to retrieve the MTRR settings from the hypervisor. In order to fix those problems, overwrite the MTRR state via mtrr_overwrite_state() with the MTRR data from the hypervisor, if the system is running as a Xen dom0. Fixes: 72cbc8f0 ("x86/PAT: Have pat_enabled() properly reflect state when running on Xen") Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230502120931.20719-6-jgross@suse.comSigned-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
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