Commit de421863 authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Ingo Molnar

x86: implement support to synchronize RDTSC through MFENCE on AMD CPUs

According to AMD RDTSC can be synchronized through MFENCE.
Implement the necessary CPUID bit for that.

Cc: andreas.herrmann3@amd.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 27efeb67
......@@ -301,6 +301,9 @@ static void __cpuinit init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
/* K6s reports MCEs but don't actually have all the MSRs */
if (c->x86 < 6)
clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_MCE, c->x86_capability);
if (cpu_has_xmm)
set_bit(X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, c->x86_capability);
}
static unsigned int __cpuinit amd_size_cache(struct cpuinfo_x86 * c, unsigned int size)
......
......@@ -746,8 +746,8 @@ static void __cpuinit init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
if (c->x86 == 0xf || c->x86 == 0x10 || c->x86 == 0x11)
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_K8);
/* RDTSC can be speculated around */
clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC);
/* MFENCE stops RDTSC speculation */
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC);
/* Family 10 doesn't support C states in MWAIT so don't use it */
if (c->x86 == 0x10 && !force_mwait)
......
......@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
/* 14 free */
#define X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC (3*32+15) /* RDTSC synchronizes the CPU */
#define X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD (3*32+16) /* rep microcode works well on this CPU */
#define X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC (3*32+17) /* Mfence synchronizes RDTSC */
/* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000001 (ecx), word 4 */
#define X86_FEATURE_XMM3 (4*32+ 0) /* Streaming SIMD Extensions-3 */
......
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