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Date:   Tue, 20 Nov 2018 01:11:18 -0800
From:   tip-bot for Borislav Petkov <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
        luto@...nel.org, bp@...e.de, john.stultz@...aro.org,
        thomas.lendacky@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip:x86/timers] x86/TSC: Use RDTSCP

Commit-ID:  2e94061096c5c3aa6c3fe3ec2bec176c1f9c1b07
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/2e94061096c5c3aa6c3fe3ec2bec176c1f9c1b07
Author:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
AuthorDate: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:11:36 +0200
Committer:  Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
CommitDate: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:55:32 +0100

x86/TSC: Use RDTSCP

Currently, the kernel uses

  [LM]FENCE; RDTSC

in the timekeeping code, to guarantee monotonicity of time where the
*FENCE is selected based on vendor.

Replace that sequence with RDTSCP which is faster or on-par and gives
the same guarantees.

A microbenchmark on Intel shows that the change is on-par.

On AMD, the change is either on-par with the current LFENCE-prefixed
RDTSC and some are slightly better with RDTSCP.

The comparison is done with the LFENCE-prefixed RDTSC (and not with the
MFENCE-prefixed one, as one would normally expect) because all modern
AMD families make LFENCE serializing and thus avoid the heavy MFENCE by
effectively enabling X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc: x86@...nel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181119184556.11479-1-bp@alien8.de
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
index 91e4cf189914..f00f2b61d326 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
@@ -217,6 +217,8 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long long rdtsc(void)
  */
 static __always_inline unsigned long long rdtsc_ordered(void)
 {
+	DECLARE_ARGS(val, low, high);
+
 	/*
 	 * The RDTSC instruction is not ordered relative to memory
 	 * access.  The Intel SDM and the AMD APM are both vague on this
@@ -227,9 +229,18 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long long rdtsc_ordered(void)
 	 * ordering guarantees as reading from a global memory location
 	 * that some other imaginary CPU is updating continuously with a
 	 * time stamp.
+	 *
+	 * Thus, use the preferred barrier on the respective CPU, aiming for
+	 * RDTSCP as the default.
 	 */
-	barrier_nospec();
-	return rdtsc();
+	asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE_2("mfence; rdtsc",
+				   "lfence; rdtsc", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC,
+				   "rdtscp", X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP)
+			: EAX_EDX_RET(val, low, high)
+			/* RDTSCP clobbers ECX with MSR_TSC_AUX. */
+			:: "ecx");
+
+	return EAX_EDX_VAL(val, low, high);
 }
 
 static inline unsigned long long native_read_pmc(int counter)