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ACPICA: Avoid cache flush inside virtual machines
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 5 Apr 2022 23:29:38 +0000 (02:29 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 9 Jun 2022 08:22:31 +0000 (10:22 +0200)
commitb1b4509ffe7b5aefad6653e2a1fa1237d4f3eb3a
tree453be1fa6524fcdd6c483ad432f13f7daab84513
parentcd455cab2b5599f2ae77ab843279dac3d29f3b48
ACPICA: Avoid cache flush inside virtual machines

[ Upstream commit 078bd286213878fdbe725a222ce965577e3c7180 ]

While running inside virtual machine, the kernel can bypass cache
flushing. Changing sleep state in a virtual machine doesn't affect the
host system sleep state and cannot lead to data loss.

Before entering sleep states, the ACPI code flushes caches to prevent
data loss using the WBINVD instruction.  This mechanism is required on
bare metal.

But, any use WBINVD inside of a guest is worthless.  Changing sleep
state in a virtual machine doesn't affect the host system sleep state
and cannot lead to data loss, so most hypervisors simply ignore it.
Despite this, the ACPI code calls WBINVD unconditionally anyway.
It's useless, but also normally harmless.

In TDX guests, though, WBINVD stops being harmless; it triggers a
virtualization exception (#VE).  If the ACPI cache-flushing WBINVD
were left in place, TDX guests would need handling to recover from
the exception.

Avoid using WBINVD whenever running under a hypervisor.  This both
removes the useless WBINVDs and saves TDX from implementing WBINVD
handling.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220405232939.73860-30-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/acenv.h