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authorRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>2018-02-03 00:26:26 -0700
committerRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>2018-02-03 00:26:26 -0700
commitee95f4059a833839bf52972191b2d4c3d3cec552 (patch)
treea1c8587d9b82e64a75dde376a90a3d69b0f4847a /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
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parentf81e1d35a6e36d30888c46283b8dd1022e847124 (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-4.16/nfit' into libnvdimm-for-next
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c')
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1 files changed, 26 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index bcb75dc..ea831c8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -829,8 +829,32 @@ static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_K8);
if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_XMM2)) {
- /* MFENCE stops RDTSC speculation */
- set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC);
+ unsigned long long val;
+ int ret;
+
+ /*
+ * A serializing LFENCE has less overhead than MFENCE, so
+ * use it for execution serialization. On families which
+ * don't have that MSR, LFENCE is already serializing.
+ * msr_set_bit() uses the safe accessors, too, even if the MSR
+ * is not present.
+ */
+ msr_set_bit(MSR_F10H_DECFG,
+ MSR_F10H_DECFG_LFENCE_SERIALIZE_BIT);
+
+ /*
+ * Verify that the MSR write was successful (could be running
+ * under a hypervisor) and only then assume that LFENCE is
+ * serializing.
+ */
+ ret = rdmsrl_safe(MSR_F10H_DECFG, &val);
+ if (!ret && (val & MSR_F10H_DECFG_LFENCE_SERIALIZE)) {
+ /* A serializing LFENCE stops RDTSC speculation */
+ set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC);
+ } else {
+ /* MFENCE stops RDTSC speculation */
+ set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC);
+ }
}
/*
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