From: tip-bot for Tom Lendacky <tipbot@zytor.com> To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Cc: hpa@zytor.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, thomas.lendacky@amd.com, tglx@linutronix.de, bp@alien8.de, peterz@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com, gregkh@linux-foundation.org, dwmw@amazon.co.uk, mingo@kernel.org, pjt@google.com, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, bp@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [tip:x86/pti] x86/cpu/AMD: Make LFENCE a serializing instruction Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 16:48:48 -0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <tip-e4d0e84e490790798691aaa0f2e598637f1867ec@git.kernel.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20180108220921.12580.71694.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net> Commit-ID: e4d0e84e490790798691aaa0f2e598637f1867ec Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/e4d0e84e490790798691aaa0f2e598637f1867ec Author: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> AuthorDate: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 16:09:21 -0600 Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CommitDate: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 01:43:10 +0100 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 --- 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); }
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-09 0:54 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2018-01-08 22:09 [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/cpu/AMD: Make LFENCE a serializing instruction on AMD Tom Lendacky 2018-01-08 22:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/cpu/AMD: Make LFENCE a serializing instruction Tom Lendacky 2018-01-09 0:48 ` tip-bot for Tom Lendacky [this message] 2018-01-08 22:09 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC in preference to MFENCE_RDTSC Tom Lendacky 2018-01-09 0:49 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tom Lendacky 2018-01-08 22:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/cpu/AMD: Make LFENCE a serializing instruction on AMD Dan Williams 2018-01-08 23:52 ` Borislav Petkov -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below -- 2018-01-05 16:07 [PATCH v1 1/3] x86/cpu/AMD: Make LFENCE a serializing instruction Tom Lendacky 2018-01-06 21:05 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tom Lendacky
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