Changeset 82658 in vbox

Timestamp:

Jan 6, 2020 5:10:53 AM (5 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

VMM/HMSVMR0: Fix PAT MSR to treat all guest memory as WB, regression from r121857.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR0/HMSVMR0.cpp (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR0/HMSVMR0.cpp

@@ -1791 +1791 @@
      * Setup the PAT MSR (applicable for Nested Paging only).
      *
+     * The default value should be MSR_IA32_CR_PAT_INIT_VAL, but we treat all guest memory
+     * as WB, so choose type 6 for all PAT slots, see @bugref{9634}.
+     *
      * While guests can modify and see the modified values through the shadow values,
      * we shall not honor any guest modifications of this MSR to ensure caching is always
@@ -1797 +1800 @@
      * For nested-guests this needs to always be set as well, see @bugref{7243#c109}.
      */
-    pVmcb->guest.u64PAT = MSR_IA32_CR_PAT_INIT_VAL;
+    pVmcb->guest.u64PAT = UINT64_C(0x0006060606060606);
 
     /* Enable the last branch record bit if LBR virtualization is enabled. */