[PATCH 2/4 v3] x86: AMD: Add hardware-enforced cache coherency as a CPUID feature

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In some hardware implementations, coherency between the encrypted and
unencrypted mappings of the same physical page is enforced. In such a system,
it is not required for software to flush the page from all CPU caches in the
system prior to changing the value of the C-bit for a page. This hardware-
enforced cache coherency is indicated by EAX[10] in CPUID leaf 0x8000001f.

Suggested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c    | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index 81335e6fe47d..0e5b27ee5931 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -293,6 +293,7 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_FENCE_SWAPGS_USER	(11*32+ 4) /* "" LFENCE in user entry SWAPGS path */
 #define X86_FEATURE_FENCE_SWAPGS_KERNEL	(11*32+ 5) /* "" LFENCE in kernel entry SWAPGS path */
 #define X86_FEATURE_SPLIT_LOCK_DETECT	(11*32+ 6) /* #AC for split lock */
+#define X86_FEATURE_HW_CACHE_COHERENCY (11*32+ 7) /* AMD hardware-enforced cache coherency */
 
 /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:1 (EAX), word 12 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_AVX512_BF16		(12*32+ 5) /* AVX512 BFLOAT16 instructions */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
index 033c112e03fc..57394fee1d35 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ static const struct cpuid_bit cpuid_bits[] = {
 	{ X86_FEATURE_MBA,		CPUID_EBX,  6, 0x80000008, 0 },
 	{ X86_FEATURE_SME,		CPUID_EAX,  0, CPUID_AMD_SME, 0 },
 	{ X86_FEATURE_SEV,		CPUID_EAX,  1, CPUID_AMD_SME, 0 },
+	{ X86_FEATURE_HW_CACHE_COHERENCY, CPUID_EAX,  10, CPUID_AMD_SME, 0 },
 	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }
 };
 
-- 
2.18.4




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