Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] x86/cpu/AMD: Make LFENCE a serializing instruction

From: Brian Gerst
Date: Fri Jan 05 2018 - 11:35:29 EST


On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> To aid in speculation control, make LFENCE a serializing instruction.
> This is done by setting bit 1 of MSR 0xc0011029 (DE_CFG). Some families
> that support LFENCE do not have this MSR. For these families, the LFENCE
> instruction is already serializing.

Does this require a microcode update?

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Brian Gerst