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x86: implement support to synchronize RDTSC through MFENCE on AMD CPUs
authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:32:37 +0000 (13:32 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:32:37 +0000 (13:32 +0100)
According to AMD RDTSC can be synchronized through MFENCE.
Implement the necessary CPUID bit for that.

Cc: andreas.herrmann3@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h

index 1ff88c7f45cff837b581c02cc6a8beda9bb70947..aaa8101d3d80054d5be05439703a2e7e8338aba3 100644 (file)
@@ -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)
index 02409100f45606845805b316293b4e6d59dcb2bd..2139aa6ac4693bdf92176b1311288d4e2dc22002 100644 (file)
@@ -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)
index 75e2f78a7fdaf758494bee2977b8154ee31bf3a3..7d53eea8b9462e6c7b44fc0a15240ca00dddf01a 100644 (file)
@@ -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 */