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.lenda...@amd.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 2 ++
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
index ab02261..1e7d710 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
@@ -352,6 +352,8 @@
#define FAM10H_MMIO_CONF_BASE_MASK 0xfffffffULL
#define FAM10H_MMIO_CONF_BASE_SHIFT 20
#define MSR_FAM10H_NODE_ID 0xc001100c
+#define MSR_F10H_DECFG 0xc0011029
+#define MSR_F10H_DECFG_LFENCE_SERIALIZE_BIT 1
/* K8 MSRs */
#define MSR_K8_TOP_MEM1 0xc001001a
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index bcb75dc..5b438d8 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);
}
