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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c index 7f2e9c6ff239..4bf9e77f3e05 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c @@ -746,6 +746,9 @@ static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_K8); if (cpu_has_xmm2) { + unsigned long long val; + int ret; + /* * A serializing LFENCE has less overhead than MFENCE, so * use it for execution serialization. On families which @@ -756,8 +759,19 @@ static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) msr_set_bit(MSR_F10H_DECFG, MSR_F10H_DECFG_LFENCE_SERIALIZE_BIT); - /* MFENCE stops RDTSC speculation */ - set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC); + /* + * 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); + } } /* |