[Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 04/17] x86/amd: Try to set lfence as being Dispatch Serialising

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This property is required for the AMD's recommended mitigation for Branch
Target Injection, but Xen needs to cope with being unable to detect or modify
the MSR.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
---
 xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c            | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h  |  1 +
 xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeatures.h |  1 +
 xen/include/asm-x86/msr-index.h   |  1 +
 4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c
index 5f36ac7..40c0bac 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c
@@ -558,8 +558,41 @@ static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
                        wrmsr_amd_safe(0xc001100d, l, h & ~1);
        }
 
+       /*
+        * Attempt to set lfence to be Dispatch Serialising.  This MSR almost
+        * certainly isn't virtualised (and Xen at least will leak the real
+        * value in but silently discard writes), as well as being per-core
+        * rather than per-thread, so do a full safe read/write/readback cycle
+        * in the worst case.
+        */
+       if (c->x86 == 0x0f || c->x86 == 0x11)
+               /* Always dispatch serialising on this hardare. */
+               __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_DISPATCH, c->x86_capability);
+       else /* Implicily "== 0x10 || >= 0x12" by being 64bit. */ {
+               if (rdmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG, value))
+                       /* Unable to read.  Assume the safer default. */
+                       __clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_DISPATCH,
+                                   c->x86_capability);
+               else if (value & AMD64_DE_CFG_LFENCE_SERIALISE)
+                       /* Already dispatch serialising. */
+                       __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_DISPATCH,
+                                 c->x86_capability);
+               else if (wrmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG,
+                                   value | AMD64_DE_CFG_LFENCE_SERIALISE) ||
+                        rdmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG, value) ||
+                        !(value & AMD64_DE_CFG_LFENCE_SERIALISE))
+                       /* Attempt to set failed.  Assume the safer default. */
+                       __clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_DISPATCH,
+                                   c->x86_capability);
+               else
+                       /* Successfully enabled! */
+                       __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_DISPATCH,
+                                 c->x86_capability);
+       }
+
        /* MFENCE stops RDTSC speculation */
-       __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, c->x86_capability);
+       if (!cpu_has_lfence_dispatch)
+               __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, c->x86_capability);
 
        switch(c->x86)
        {
diff --git a/xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h b/xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
index 84cc51d..adc333f 100644
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@
 #define cpu_has_arch_perfmon    boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON)
 #define cpu_has_cpuid_faulting  boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CPUID_FAULTING)
 #define cpu_has_aperfmperf      boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF)
+#define cpu_has_lfence_dispatch boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_DISPATCH)
 
 enum _cache_type {
     CACHE_TYPE_NULL = 0,
diff --git a/xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeatures.h 
b/xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeatures.h
index bc98227..58b37d6 100644
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeatures.h
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@ XEN_CPUFEATURE(APERFMPERF,      (FSCAPINTS+0)*32+ 8) /* 
APERFMPERF */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(MFENCE_RDTSC,    (FSCAPINTS+0)*32+ 9) /* MFENCE synchronizes 
RDTSC */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(XEN_SMEP,        (FSCAPINTS+0)*32+10) /* SMEP gets used by Xen 
itself */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(XEN_SMAP,        (FSCAPINTS+0)*32+11) /* SMAP gets used by Xen 
itself */
+XEN_CPUFEATURE(LFENCE_DISPATCH, (FSCAPINTS+0)*32+12) /* lfence set as Dispatch 
Serialising */
diff --git a/xen/include/asm-x86/msr-index.h b/xen/include/asm-x86/msr-index.h
index a834f3b..56f5359 100644
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/msr-index.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/msr-index.h
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@
 #define MSR_AMD64_IC_CFG               0xc0011021
 #define MSR_AMD64_DC_CFG               0xc0011022
 #define MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG               0xc0011029
+#define AMD64_DE_CFG_LFENCE_SERIALISE  (_AC(1, ULL) << 1)
 
 #define MSR_AMD64_DR0_ADDRESS_MASK     0xc0011027
 #define MSR_AMD64_DR1_ADDRESS_MASK     0xc0011019
-- 
2.1.4


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