Author: avg Date: Mon Aug 15 09:04:31 2016 New Revision: 304131 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/304131
Log: MFC r302835: fix-up for configuration of AMD Family 10h processors borrowed from Linux Modified: stable/10/sys/amd64/amd64/initcpu.c Directory Properties: stable/10/ (props changed) Modified: stable/10/sys/amd64/amd64/initcpu.c ============================================================================== --- stable/10/sys/amd64/amd64/initcpu.c Mon Aug 15 09:04:13 2016 (r304130) +++ stable/10/sys/amd64/amd64/initcpu.c Mon Aug 15 09:04:31 2016 (r304131) @@ -125,6 +125,20 @@ 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); + } + } } /* _______________________________________________ svn-src-stable-10@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-stable-10 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-stable-10-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"