diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
index 35389b2af88ee..0216f63a366b5 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 4af140cf5719e..3e973ff20e235 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 ae81a7191c1c0..26620d7642a9f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -749,4 +749,22 @@ enum mds_mitigations {
 
 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 a7eab05e5f297..841e212136682 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -1162,6 +1162,9 @@ 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 b14fc8c1c9538..98f7ea6b931cb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1856,6 +1856,13 @@ static void identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	c->topo.apicid = apic->phys_pkg_id(c->topo.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 6f247d66758de..f0cd95502faae 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hygon.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hygon.c
@@ -354,6 +354,9 @@ 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)