docs/pvh: document initial MTRR state

Provided to both Dom0 and DomUs.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
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Roger Pau Monné authored and Jan Beulich committed 2018-07-16 15:11:42 +02:00
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@@ -92,3 +92,21 @@ event channels. Delivery of those interrupts can be configured in the same way
as HVM guests, check xen/include/public/hvm/params.h and
xen/include/public/hvm/hvm\_op.h for more information about available delivery
methods.
## MTRR ##
### Unprivileged guests ###
PVH guests are currently booted with the default MTRR type set to write-back
and MTRR enabled. This allows DomUs to start with a sane MTRR state. Note that
this will have to be revisited when pci-passthrough is added to PVH in order to
set MMIO regions as UC.
Xen guarantees that RAM regions will always have the WB cache type set in the
initial MTRR state, either set by the default MTRR type or by other means.
### Hardware domain ###
A PVH hardware domain is booted with the same MTRR state as the one found on
the host. This is done because the hardware domain memory map is already a
modified copy of the host memory map, so the same MTRR setup should work.
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