From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/cpu/AMD: Make LFENCE a serializing instruction
To: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:09:21 -0600
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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>
---
 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);
 	}