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* [PATCH v1 1/1] x86: Skip WBINVD instruction for VM guest
@ 2021-11-16  0:50 Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
  2021-11-16 16:24 ` Borislav Petkov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 32+ messages in thread
From: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan @ 2021-11-16  0:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, x86
  Cc: H . Peter Anvin, Tony Luck, Dan Williams, Andi Kleen,
	Kirill Shutemov, Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan,
	Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan, linux-kernel

ACPI mandates that CPU caches be flushed before entering any sleep
state. This ensures that the CPU and its caches can be powered down
without losing data.

ACPI-based VMs have maintained this sleep-state-entry behavior.
However, cache flushing for VM sleep state entry is useless. Unlike on
bare metal, guest sleep states are not correlated with potential data
loss of any kind; the host is responsible for data preservation. In
fact, some KVM configurations simply skip the cache flushing
instruction (see need_emulate_wbinvd()).

Further, on TDX systems, the WBINVD instruction causes an
unconditional #VE exception.  If this cache flushing remained, it would
need extra code in the form of a #VE handler.

All use of ACPI_FLUSH_CPU_CACHE() appears to be in sleep-state-related
code.

This means that the ACPI use of WBINVD is at *best* superfluous.

Disable ACPI CPU cache flushing on all X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR systems,
which includes TDX.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/acenv.h | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/acenv.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/acenv.h
index 9aff97f0de7f..d4162e94bee8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/acenv.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/acenv.h
@@ -10,10 +10,15 @@
 #define _ASM_X86_ACENV_H
 
 #include <asm/special_insns.h>
+#include <asm/cpu.h>
 
 /* Asm macros */
 
-#define ACPI_FLUSH_CPU_CACHE()	wbinvd()
+#define ACPI_FLUSH_CPU_CACHE()				\
+do {							\
+	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR))	\
+		wbinvd();				\
+} while (0)
 
 int __acpi_acquire_global_lock(unsigned int *lock);
 int __acpi_release_global_lock(unsigned int *lock);
-- 
2.25.1


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2021-11-16  0:50 [PATCH v1 1/1] x86: Skip WBINVD instruction for VM guest Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-11-16 16:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-11-16 16:36   ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2021-11-19  4:03   ` [PATCH v2] " Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-11-25  0:40     ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-02 22:21       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-02 22:38         ` Dave Hansen
2021-12-02 23:48         ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-03 23:49           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-04  0:20             ` Dave Hansen
2021-12-04  0:54               ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-06 15:35                 ` Dave Hansen
2021-12-06 16:39                   ` Dan Williams
2021-12-06 16:53                     ` Dave Hansen
2021-12-06 17:51                       ` Dan Williams
2021-12-04 20:27             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-12-06 12:29               ` [PATCH 0/4] ACPI/ACPICA: Only flush caches on S1/S2/S3 and C3 Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-06 12:29                 ` [PATCH 1/4] ACPICA: Do not flush cache for on entering S4 and S5 Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-08 14:58                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-12-06 12:29                 ` [PATCH 2/4] ACPI: PM: Remove redundant cache flushing Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-07 16:35                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-12-09 13:32                     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-17 18:04                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-12-06 12:29                 ` [PATCH 3/4] ACPI: processor idle: Only flush cache on entering C3 Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-06 15:03                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-12-08 16:26                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-12-09 13:33                       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-17 17:58                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-12-06 12:29                 ` [PATCH 4/4] ACPI: PM: Avoid cache flush on entering S4 Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-08 15:10                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-12-08 16:04                     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-08 16:16                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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