Hi,
> >>> Well, it's OVMF in a virtual machine. No boot guard involved.
> >>> So we could probably go for a OVMF-specific patch here.
> >>>
> >>> But I'd prefer to figure what exactly is happening here before going
> >>> down that route. An extreme slowdown just because we flip that bit
> >>> doesn't make sense to me.
> >>>
> >>>> Why is boot time increasing?
> >>>
> >>> Not clear. It seems to be the lzma uncompress of the firmware volume
> >>> in rom / pflash which is very slow. Also it is apparently only
> >>> triggered in case pci device assignment is used.
> >>
> >> I've seen extreme slowness on physical platforms when we've mixed up the
> >> MTRRs or page tables, causing code to be mapped uncached.
> >>
> >> Lzma uncompress of ROM could be pretty slow as well, if the ROM is being
> >> read uncached. Lzma probably reads the data a byte at a time, which is the
> >> worst case for uncached accesses. Since this is a VM, it's not actually
> >> uncached at the hardware level, but I don't know how QEMU/KVM handles
> >> uncached guest mappings.... It may be doing a VMEXIT for every byte.
> >>
> >> Anyway, I suggest double-checking your page tables and MTRRs.
> >
> > It happens very early at boot, before MTRRs are setup, running on the
> > initial page tables created by the OVMF reset vector. The initial page
> > tables have just 'accessed', 'dirty', 'read/write' and 'present' bits
> > set for the 0-4G identity mapping.
> >
> > It seems to have something to do with EPT. It does not happen on AMD
> > processors. It also does not happen when disabling EPT support in kvm
> > on the host machine.
> >
> > looked at kvm kernel traces, I don't see excessive vmexits.
>
> This discussion evokes vague memories in me. I'll dump them here, but I
> have no idea if they will be useful. (They probably won't.)
>
> - edk2 commit 98f378a7be12 ("OvmfPkg/ResetVector: enable caching in
> initial page tables", 2013-09-24)
>
> - Linux (host) commit 879ae1880449 ("KVM: x86: obey
> KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED in kvm_set_cr0()", 2015-11-04)
I actually waded through the source code in both places ;)
Turned out kvm propagates guest MTRR settings to EPT memory types,
but only in case kvm_arch_has_noncoherent_dma() is true, which why
this triggers only with a mdev device assigned.
MTRR disabled gets translated to UNCACHABLE, this is where the
slowdown comes from. Test patch below fixes it for me.
take care,
Gerd
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commit eb9f40ffd8afad03ac1fb6ac0e2a9af12ae78152
Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Jan 23 15:33:51 2024 +0100
OvmfPkg/Sec: early mtrr setup
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>
diff --git a/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/MemDetect.c
b/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/MemDetect.c
index f042517bb64a..14f39236e44d 100644
--- a/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/MemDetect.c
+++ b/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/MemDetect.c
@@ -1081,12 +1081,14 @@ PlatformQemuInitializeRam (
if (IsMtrrSupported () && (PlatformInfoHob->HostBridgeDevId !=
CLOUDHV_DEVICE_ID)) {
MtrrGetAllMtrrs (&MtrrSettings);
+#if 0
//
// MTRRs disabled, fixed MTRRs disabled, default type is uncached
//
ASSERT ((MtrrSettings.MtrrDefType & BIT11) == 0);
ASSERT ((MtrrSettings.MtrrDefType & BIT10) == 0);
ASSERT ((MtrrSettings.MtrrDefType & 0xFF) == 0);
+#endif
//
// flip default type to writeback
diff --git a/OvmfPkg/Sec/SecMain.c b/OvmfPkg/Sec/SecMain.c
index 9bd1b9c95227..2820be1bab7c 100644
--- a/OvmfPkg/Sec/SecMain.c
+++ b/OvmfPkg/Sec/SecMain.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include <Ppi/MpInitLibDep.h>
#include <Library/TdxHelperLib.h>
#include <Library/CcProbeLib.h>
+#include <Register/Intel/ArchitecturalMsr.h>
#include "AmdSev.h"
#define SEC_IDT_ENTRY_COUNT 34
@@ -956,6 +957,19 @@ SecCoreStartupWithStack (
InitializeApicTimer (0, MAX_UINT32, TRUE, 5);
DisableApicTimerInterrupt ();
+ //
+ // Early MTRR setup (enable + set sefault)
+ //
+ {
+ MSR_IA32_MTRR_DEF_TYPE_REGISTER DefType;
+
+ DefType.Uint64 = 0;
+ DefType.Bits.Type = 6; /* write back */
+ DefType.Bits.E = 1; /* enable */
+ AsmWriteMsr64 (MSR_IA32_MTRR_DEF_TYPE, DefType.Uint64);
+ DEBUG ((DEBUG_ERROR, "%a:%d early mtrr: %lx\n", __func__, __LINE__,
DefType.Uint64));
+ }
+
//
// Initialize Debug Agent to support source level debug in SEC/PEI phases
before memory ready.
//
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