From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] MTRR on Xen - BIOS use and implications for Linux
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:13:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56EA913F.1040403@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=NE6UTp0T=rbOcAg88iPsfBJneY7O5-3c11VfFgAPiepoTNg@mail.gmail.com>
tl;dr?
Somewhere in here are some actual questions which I will attempt to
answer. Please try and be more concise in future.
On 16/03/16 20:08, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Toshi noted a while ago as well that if BIOS/firmware enables MTRR but
> the kernel does not have it enabled one issue might have been any
> MTRRs set up by the BIOS and ensuring the mapping is respected, in
> particular UC settings, this concern is raised above. Another issue
> though is that the kernel would be "unable to verify if a large page
> mapping is aligned with MTRRs" [3]
This is not a relevant concern for Xen guests: PV guests do not
support superpage mappings and HVM guests never see real MTRRs.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-17 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-16 20:08 MTRR on Xen - BIOS use and implications for Linux Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-03-17 11:13 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2016-03-17 18:56 ` [Xen-devel] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-03-29 17:22 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-03-29 22:14 ` Toshi Kani
2016-03-29 22:28 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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