On 19/07/2019 11:29, Jan Beulich wrote:
> From: Ricardo Neri <[email protected]>
>
> Processors which have self-snooping capability can handle conflicting
> memory type across CPUs by snooping its own cache. However, there exists
> CPU models in which having conflicting memory types still leads to
> unpredictable behavior, machine check errors, or hangs.
>
> Clear this feature on affected CPUs to prevent its use.
>
> Suggested-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <[email protected]>
> [Linux commit 1e03bff3600101bd9158d005e4313132e55bdec8]
>
> Strip Yonah - as per ark.intel.com it doesn't look to be 64-bit capable.
> Call the new function on the boot CPU only. Don't clear the CPU feature
> flag itself, as it is exposed to guests (who could otherwise observe it
> disappear after migration).
>
> Requested-by: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>

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