tree dc956f46e452d47ab959fc43fc1b0339722b85e9
parent 249aa745fb133be47d3fea1cdecec55af7589919
author aliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162> 1232992384 +0000
committer aliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162> 1232992384 +0000

MTRR support on x86 (Carl-Daniel Hailfinger)

The current codebase ignores MTRR (Memory Type Range Register)
configuration writes and reads because Qemu does not implement caching.
All BIOS/firmware in know of for x86 do implement a mode called
Cache-as-RAM (CAR) which locks down the CPU cache lines and uses the CPU
cache like RAM before RAM is enabled. Qemu assumes RAM is accessible
from the start, but it would be nice to be able to run real
BIOS/firmware in Qemu. For that, we need CAR support and for CAR support
we have to support MTRRs.

This patch is a first step in that direction. MTRRs are MSRs supported
by all recent x86 CPUs, even old i586. Besides influencing cache, the
MTRRs can be written and read back, so discarding MTRR writes violates
the expectations of existing code out there.

An added benefit of this patch is that it fixes the following Linux
kernel error message present in recent kernels (provided the BIOS has
the recent MTRR patches applied):
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:1500 mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x382/0x384()
WARNING: strange, CPU MTRRs all blank?
Modules linked in:
Supported: Yes
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27.7-9-default #1
 [<c0106570>] dump_trace+0x6b/0x249
 [<c01070a5>] show_trace+0x20/0x39
 [<c0343c02>] dump_stack+0x71/0x76
 [<c012acb2>] warn_slowpath+0x6f/0x90
 [<c0542f8f>] mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x382/0x384
 [<c053f24d>] setup_arch+0x40d/0x639
 [<c053a6ac>] start_kernel+0x6b/0x31f
 =======================
 ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---

Handle common x86 MTRR reads and writes, but don't act on them.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6449 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162