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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 |
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| exec.h | ||
| helper.c | ||
| helper.h | ||
| helper_template.h | ||
| kvm.c | ||
| machine.c | ||
| op_helper.c | ||
| ops_sse.h | ||
| ops_sse_header.h | ||
| svm.h | ||
| TODO | ||
| translate.c | ||