[PATCH 4/4 v3] KVM: SVM: Don't flush cache if hardware enforces cache coherency across encryption domains

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In some hardware implementations, coherency between the encrypted and
unencrypted mappings of the same physical page in a VM is enforced. In such a
system, it is not required for software to flush the VM's page from all CPU
caches in the system prior to changing the value of the C-bit for the page.

Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index 402dc4234e39..8aa2209f2637 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -384,7 +384,8 @@ static void sev_clflush_pages(struct page *pages[], unsigned long npages)
 	uint8_t *page_virtual;
 	unsigned long i;
 
-	if (npages == 0 || pages == NULL)
+	if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HW_CACHE_COHERENCY) || npages == 0 ||
+	    pages == NULL)
 		return;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < npages; i++) {
-- 
2.18.4




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