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Subject[tip:x86/pti] x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC instead of MFENCE_RDTSC
Commit-ID:  0bf17c102177d5da9363bf8b1e4704b9996d5079
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/0bf17c102177d5da9363bf8b1e4704b9996d5079
Author: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 10:07:56 -0600
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitDate: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 21:57:40 +0100

x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC instead of MFENCE_RDTSC

With LFENCE now a serializing instruction, set the LFENCE_RDTSC
feature since the LFENCE instruction has less overhead than the
MFENCE instruction.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180105160756.23786.4220.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net

---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index fbd439e..b221fe5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -838,8 +838,8 @@ 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);
+ /* A serializing LFENCE stops RDTSC speculation */
+ set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC);
}

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