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File 61bc429f-revert-hvmloader-PA-range-should-be-UC.patch of Package xen

References: bsc#1193447

# Commit ea187c0b7a73c26258c0e91e4f3656989804555f
# Date 2021-12-17 08:56:15 +0100
# Author Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
# Committer Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
revert "hvmloader: PA range 0xfc000000-0xffffffff should be UC"

This reverts commit c22bd567ce22f6ad9bd93318ad0d7fd1c2eadb0d.

While its description is correct from an abstract or real hardware pov,
the range is special inside HVM guests. The range being UC in particular
gets in the way of OVMF, which places itself at [FFE00000,FFFFFFFF].
While this is benign to epte_get_entry_emt() as long as the IOMMU isn't
enabled for a guest, it becomes a very noticable problem otherwise: It
takes about half a minute for OVMF to decompress itself into its
designated address range.

And even beyond OVMF there's no reason to have e.g. the ACPI memory
range marked UC.

Fixes: c22bd567ce22 ("hvmloader: PA range 0xfc000000-0xffffffff should be UC")
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

--- a/tools/firmware/hvmloader/cacheattr.c
+++ b/tools/firmware/hvmloader/cacheattr.c
@@ -98,12 +98,12 @@ void cacheattr_init(void)
     {
         uint64_t base = pci_mem_start, size;
 
-        for ( i = 0; !(base >> 32) && (i < nr_var_ranges); i++ )
+        for ( i = 0; (base != pci_mem_end) && (i < nr_var_ranges); i++ )
         {
             size = PAGE_SIZE;
             while ( !(base & size) )
                 size <<= 1;
-            while ( ((base + size) < base) || ((base + size - 1) >> 32) )
+            while ( ((base + size) < base) || ((base + size) > pci_mem_end) )
                 size >>= 1;
 
             wrmsr(MSR_MTRRphysBase(i), base);

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