Revert "KVM: VMX: Always honor guest PAT on CPUs that support self-snoop"

This reverts commit 377b2f359d1f71c75f8cc352b5c81f2210312d83.

This caused a regression with the bochsdrm driver, which used ioremap()
instead of ioremap_wc() to map the video RAM. After the commit, the
WB memory type is used without the IGNORE_PAT, resulting in the slower
UC memory type. In fact, UC is slow enough to basically cause guests
to not boot... but only on new processors such as Sapphire Rapids and
Cascade Lake. Coffee Lake for example works properly, though that might
also be an effect of being on a larger, more NUMA system.

The driver has been fixed but that does not help older guests. Until we
figure out whether Cascade Lake and newer processors are working as
intended, revert the commit. Long term we might add a quirk, but the
details depend on whether the processors are working as intended: for
example if they are, the quirk might reference bochs-compatible devices,
e.g. in the name and documentation, so that userspace can disable the
quirk by default and only leave it enabled if such a device is being
exposed to the guest.

If instead this is actually a bug in CLX+, then the actions we need to
take are different and depend on the actual cause of the bug.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Changed files
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arch
x86
kvm
mmu
vmx
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arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
··· 4674 4674 bool kvm_mmu_may_ignore_guest_pat(void) 4675 4675 { 4676 4676 /* 4677 - * When EPT is enabled (shadow_memtype_mask is non-zero), the CPU does 4678 - * not support self-snoop (or is affected by an erratum), and the VM 4677 + * When EPT is enabled (shadow_memtype_mask is non-zero), and the VM 4679 4678 * has non-coherent DMA (DMA doesn't snoop CPU caches), KVM's ABI is to 4680 4679 * honor the memtype from the guest's PAT so that guest accesses to 4681 4680 * memory that is DMA'd aren't cached against the guest's wishes. As a 4682 4681 * result, KVM _may_ ignore guest PAT, whereas without non-coherent DMA, 4683 - * KVM _always_ ignores or honors guest PAT, i.e. doesn't toggle SPTE 4684 - * bits in response to non-coherent device (un)registration. 4682 + * KVM _always_ ignores guest PAT (when EPT is enabled). 4685 4683 */ 4686 - return !static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SELFSNOOP) && shadow_memtype_mask; 4684 + return shadow_memtype_mask; 4687 4685 } 4688 4686 4689 4687 int kvm_tdp_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault)
+4 -6
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
··· 7659 7659 7660 7660 /* 7661 7661 * Force WB and ignore guest PAT if the VM does NOT have a non-coherent 7662 - * device attached and the CPU doesn't support self-snoop. Letting the 7663 - * guest control memory types on Intel CPUs without self-snoop may 7664 - * result in unexpected behavior, and so KVM's (historical) ABI is to 7665 - * trust the guest to behave only as a last resort. 7662 + * device attached. Letting the guest control memory types on Intel 7663 + * CPUs may result in unexpected behavior, and so KVM's ABI is to trust 7664 + * the guest to behave only as a last resort. 7666 7665 */ 7667 - if (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SELFSNOOP) && 7668 - !kvm_arch_has_noncoherent_dma(vcpu->kvm)) 7666 + if (!kvm_arch_has_noncoherent_dma(vcpu->kvm)) 7669 7667 return (MTRR_TYPE_WRBACK << VMX_EPT_MT_EPTE_SHIFT) | VMX_EPT_IPAT_BIT; 7670 7668 7671 7669 return (MTRR_TYPE_WRBACK << VMX_EPT_MT_EPTE_SHIFT);