Merge branch 'x86/hyperv' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Topic branch for stable KVM clockource under Hyper-V.

Thanks to Christoffer Dall for resolving the ARM conflict.

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index df8a2418aadf..5bddbdcbc4a3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -855,8 +855,32 @@ static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_K8);
 
 	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_XMM2)) {
-		/* MFENCE stops RDTSC speculation */
-		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC);
+		unsigned long long val;
+		int ret;
+
+		/*
+		 * 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);
+
+		/*
+		 * 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);
+		}
 	}
 
 	/*