Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:04:13 +0000 (UTC) From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r304130 - stable/11/sys/amd64/amd64 Message-ID: <201608150904.u7F94DSK061120@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: avg Date: Mon Aug 15 09:04:13 2016 New Revision: 304130 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/304130 Log: MFC r302835: fix-up for configuration of AMD Family 10h processors borrowed from Linux Modified: stable/11/sys/amd64/amd64/initcpu.c Directory Properties: stable/11/ (props changed) Modified: stable/11/sys/amd64/amd64/initcpu.c ============================================================================== --- stable/11/sys/amd64/amd64/initcpu.c Mon Aug 15 09:03:05 2016 (r304129) +++ stable/11/sys/amd64/amd64/initcpu.c Mon Aug 15 09:04:13 2016 (r304130) @@ -94,6 +94,20 @@ init_amd(void) wrmsr(MSR_NB_CFG1, msr); } } + + /* + * BIOS may configure Family 10h processors to convert WC+ cache type + * to CD. That can hurt performance of guest VMs using nested paging. + * The relevant MSR bit is not documented in the BKDG, + * the fix is borrowed from Linux. + */ + if (CPUID_TO_FAMILY(cpu_id) == 0x10) { + if ((cpu_feature2 & CPUID2_HV) == 0) { + msr = rdmsr(0xc001102a); + msr &= ~((uint64_t)1 << 24); + wrmsr(0xc001102a, msr); + } + } } /*
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