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authorTom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>2018-01-08 16:09:21 -0600
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2018-01-09 01:43:10 +0100
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tree66d52c2120951105b4b688a8615a56f89551e4bf /arch/x86/kernel
parentx86/mm/pti: Remove dead logic in pti_user_pagetable_walk*() (diff)
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x86/cpu/AMD: Make LFENCE a serializing instruction
To aid in speculation control, make LFENCE a serializing instruction since it has less overhead than MFENCE. This is done by setting bit 1 of MSR 0xc0011029 (DE_CFG). Some families that support LFENCE do not have this MSR. For these families, the LFENCE instruction is already serializing. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180108220921.12580.71694.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index bcb75dc97d44..5b438d81beb2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -829,6 +829,16 @@ static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_K8);
if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_XMM2)) {
+ /*
+ * 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);
+
/* MFENCE stops RDTSC speculation */
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC);
}