On Monday 22 March 2010 17:06:42 Gui Jianfeng wrote:
> According to SDM, we need to configure EPT paging-structure memory type
> by consulting IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <[email protected]>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h |    2 ++
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c         |   12 +++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
> index fb9a080..1b33a60 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
> @@ -374,6 +374,8 @@ enum vmcs_field {
>  #define VMX_EPT_MT_EPTE_SHIFT                        3
>  #define VMX_EPT_GAW_EPTP_SHIFT                       3
>  #define VMX_EPT_DEFAULT_MT                   0x6ull
> +#define VMX_EPT_MT_WRBACK                    0x6ull
> +#define VMX_EPT_MT_UNCACHABLE                        0x0ull
>  #define VMX_EPT_READABLE_MASK                        0x1ull
>  #define VMX_EPT_WRITABLE_MASK                        0x2ull
>  #define VMX_EPT_EXECUTABLE_MASK                      0x4ull
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index 06108f3..f971b9b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -1804,9 +1804,15 @@ static u64 construct_eptp(unsigned long root_hpa)
>  {
>       u64 eptp;
> 
> -     /* TODO write the value reading from MSR */
> -     eptp = VMX_EPT_DEFAULT_MT |
> -             VMX_EPT_DEFAULT_GAW << VMX_EPT_GAW_EPTP_SHIFT;
> +     if (cpu_has_vmx_eptp_writeback())
> +             eptp = VMX_EPT_MT_WRBACK |
> +                     VMX_EPT_DEFAULT_GAW << VMX_EPT_GAW_EPTP_SHIFT;

I prefer to ensure WB is supported and used as default. Otherwise it would be 
a big trouble for memory subsystem(to use UC for all memory). Both WB and UC 
EPT memory types are ensured to be support in hardware.

And you can remove VMX_EPT_DEFAULT_MT as well.

-- 
regards
Yang, Sheng

> +     else if (cpu_has_vmx_eptp_uncacheable())
> +             eptp = VMX_EPT_MT_UNCACHABLE |
> +                     VMX_EPT_DEFAULT_GAW << VMX_EPT_GAW_EPTP_SHIFT;
> +     else
> +             BUG();
> +
>       eptp |= (root_hpa & PAGE_MASK);
> 
>       return eptp;
> 
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