From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 04c3024560d3a14acd18d0a51a1d0a89d29b7eb5 upstream.
AMD does not have the requirement for a synchronization barrier when
acccessing a certain group of MSRs. Do not incur that unnecessary
penalty there.
There will be a CPUID bit which explicitly states that a MFENCE is not
needed. Once that bit is added to the APM, this will be extended with
it.
While at it, move to processor.h to avoid include hell. Untangling that
file properly is a matter for another day.
Some notes on the performance aspect of why this is relevant, courtesy
of Kishon VijayAbraham <Kishon.VijayAbraham@xxxxxxx>:
On a AMD Zen4 system with 96 cores, a modified ipi-bench[1] on a VM
shows x2AVIC IPI rate is 3% to 4% lower than AVIC IPI rate. The
ipi-bench is modified so that the IPIs are sent between two vCPUs in the
same CCX. This also requires to pin the vCPU to a physical core to
prevent any latencies. This simulates the use case of pinning vCPUs to
the thread of a single CCX to avoid interrupt IPI latency.
In order to avoid run-to-run variance (for both x2AVIC and AVIC), the
below configurations are done:
1) Disable Power States in BIOS (to prevent the system from going to
lower power state)
2) Run the system at fixed frequency 2500MHz (to prevent the system
from increasing the frequency when the load is more)
With the above configuration:
*) Performance measured using ipi-bench for AVIC:
Average Latency: 1124.98ns [Time to send IPI from one vCPU to another vCPU]
Cumulative throughput: 42.6759M/s [Total number of IPIs sent in a second from
48 vCPUs simultaneously]
*) Performance measured using ipi-bench for x2AVIC:
Average Latency: 1172.42ns [Time to send IPI from one vCPU to another vCPU]
Cumulative throughput: 40.9432M/s [Total number of IPIs sent in a second from
48 vCPUs simultaneously]
>From above, x2AVIC latency is ~4% more than AVIC. However, the expectation is
x2AVIC performance to be better or equivalent to AVIC. Upon analyzing
the perf captures, it is observed significant time is spent in
weak_wrmsr_fence() invoked by x2apic_send_IPI().
With the fix to skip weak_wrmsr_fence()
*) Performance measured using ipi-bench for x2AVIC:
Average Latency: 1117.44ns [Time to send IPI from one vCPU to another vCPU]
Cumulative throughput: 42.9608M/s [Total number of IPIs sent in a second from
48 vCPUs simultaneously]
Comparing the performance of x2AVIC with and without the fix, it can be seen
the performance improves by ~4%.
Performance captured using an unmodified ipi-bench using the 'mesh-ipi' option
with and without weak_wrmsr_fence() on a Zen4 system also showed significant
performance improvement without weak_wrmsr_fence(). The 'mesh-ipi' option ignores
CCX or CCD and just picks random vCPU.
Average throughput (10 iterations) with weak_wrmsr_fence(),
Cumulative throughput: 4933374 IPI/s
Average throughput (10 iterations) without weak_wrmsr_fence(),
Cumulative throughput: 6355156 IPI/s
[1] https://github.com/bytedance/kvm-utils/tree/master/microbenchmark/ipi-bench
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 6.6+
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230622095212.20940-1-bp@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kvijayab@xxxxxxx>
---
Kindly merge this patch to stable releases (v6.6+) as it's a perf optimization.
[It does not apply as is on earlier releases and have to be reworked]
arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h | 18 ------------------
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 3 +++
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 7 +++++++
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hygon.c | 3 +++
6 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
index 35389b2af88e..0216f63a366b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -81,22 +81,4 @@ do { \
#include <asm-generic/barrier.h>
-/*
- * Make previous memory operations globally visible before
- * a WRMSR.
- *
- * MFENCE makes writes visible, but only affects load/store
- * instructions. WRMSR is unfortunately not a load/store
- * instruction and is unaffected by MFENCE. The LFENCE ensures
- * that the WRMSR is not reordered.
- *
- * Most WRMSRs are full serializing instructions themselves and
- * do not require this barrier. This is only required for the
- * IA32_TSC_DEADLINE and X2APIC MSRs.
- */
-static inline void weak_wrmsr_fence(void)
-{
- asm volatile("mfence; lfence" : : : "memory");
-}
-
#endif /* _ASM_X86_BARRIER_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index 58cb9495e40f..0091f1008314 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -308,10 +308,10 @@
#define X86_FEATURE_SMBA (11*32+21) /* "" Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation */
#define X86_FEATURE_BMEC (11*32+22) /* "" Bandwidth Monitoring Event Configuration */
#define X86_FEATURE_USER_SHSTK (11*32+23) /* Shadow stack support for user mode applications */
-
#define X86_FEATURE_SRSO (11*32+24) /* "" AMD BTB untrain RETs */
#define X86_FEATURE_SRSO_ALIAS (11*32+25) /* "" AMD BTB untrain RETs through aliasing */
#define X86_FEATURE_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT (11*32+26) /* "" Issue an IBPB only on VMEXIT */
+#define X86_FEATURE_APIC_MSRS_FENCE (11*32+27) /* "" IA32_TSC_DEADLINE and X2APIC MSRs need fencing */
/* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:1 (EAX), word 12 */
#define X86_FEATURE_AVX_VNNI (12*32+ 4) /* AVX VNNI instructions */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index a3669a7774ed..191f1d8f0506 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -734,4 +734,22 @@ bool arch_is_platform_page(u64 paddr);
extern bool gds_ucode_mitigated(void);
+/*
+ * Make previous memory operations globally visible before
+ * a WRMSR.
+ *
+ * MFENCE makes writes visible, but only affects load/store
+ * instructions. WRMSR is unfortunately not a load/store
+ * instruction and is unaffected by MFENCE. The LFENCE ensures
+ * that the WRMSR is not reordered.
+ *
+ * Most WRMSRs are full serializing instructions themselves and
+ * do not require this barrier. This is only required for the
+ * IA32_TSC_DEADLINE and X2APIC MSRs.
+ */
+static inline void weak_wrmsr_fence(void)
+{
+ alternative("mfence; lfence", "", ALT_NOT(X86_FEATURE_APIC_MSRS_FENCE));
+}
+
#endif /* _ASM_X86_PROCESSOR_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index 6e4f23f314ac..bb3efc825bf4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -1157,6 +1157,9 @@ static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR) &&
cpu_has_amd_erratum(c, amd_erratum_1485))
msr_set_bit(MSR_ZEN4_BP_CFG, MSR_ZEN4_BP_CFG_SHARED_BTB_FIX_BIT);
+
+ /* AMD CPUs don't need fencing after x2APIC/TSC_DEADLINE MSR writes. */
+ clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_APIC_MSRS_FENCE);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 4e5ffc8b0e46..d98d023ae497 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1858,6 +1858,13 @@ static void identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
c->apicid = apic->phys_pkg_id(c->initial_apicid, 0);
#endif
+
+ /*
+ * Set default APIC and TSC_DEADLINE MSR fencing flag. AMD and
+ * Hygon will clear it in ->c_init() below.
+ */
+ set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_APIC_MSRS_FENCE);
+
/*
* Vendor-specific initialization. In this section we
* canonicalize the feature flags, meaning if there are
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hygon.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hygon.c
index a7b3ef4c4de9..6e738759779e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hygon.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hygon.c
@@ -348,6 +348,9 @@ static void init_hygon(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
set_cpu_bug(c, X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS);
check_null_seg_clears_base(c);
+
+ /* Hygon CPUs don't need fencing after x2APIC/TSC_DEADLINE MSR writes. */
+ clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_APIC_MSRS_FENCE);
}
static void cpu_detect_tlb_hygon(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
--
2.34.1
