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[xen master] x86/mm: avoid hard-coding PAT in get_page_from_l1e()
commit 40b05620e24a936ad03c21c6fba4d48202c5f0d4
Author: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Jan 5 16:19:43 2023 +0100
Commit: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
CommitDate: Thu Jan 5 16:19:43 2023 +0100

x86/mm: avoid hard-coding PAT in get_page_from_l1e()

get_page_from_l1e() relied on Xen's choice of PAT, which is brittle in
the face of future PAT changes. Instead, compute the actual cacheability
used by the CPU and switch on that, as this will work no matter what PAT
Xen uses.

No functional change intended. This code is itself questionable and may
be removed in the future, but removing it would be an observable
behavior change and so is out of scope for this patch series.

Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
---
xen/arch/x86/mm.c | 15 +++++++++------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/mm.c b/xen/arch/x86/mm.c
index 8fa29d5c8b..0fe14faa5f 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm.c
@@ -956,14 +956,17 @@ get_page_from_l1e(
flip = _PAGE_RW;
}

- switch ( l1f & PAGE_CACHE_ATTRS )
+ switch ( 0xFF & (XEN_MSR_PAT >> (8 * pte_flags_to_cacheattr(l1f))) )
{
- case 0: /* WB */
- flip |= _PAGE_PWT | _PAGE_PCD;
+ case X86_MT_UC:
+ case X86_MT_UCM:
+ case X86_MT_WC:
+ /* not cacheable, allow */
break;
- case _PAGE_PWT: /* WT */
- case _PAGE_PWT | _PAGE_PAT: /* WP */
- flip |= _PAGE_PCD | (l1f & _PAGE_PAT);
+
+ default:
+ /* potentially cacheable, force to UC */
+ flip |= ((l1f & PAGE_CACHE_ATTRS) ^ _PAGE_UC);
break;
}

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