[tip:x86/idle] x86, idle: Add memory barriers around clflush in mwait_play_dead()

From: tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Dec 19 2013 - 15:34:25 EST


Commit-ID: 7d590cca7cd2cce4ed7c47d221d6f90566653ba8
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/7d590cca7cd2cce4ed7c47d221d6f90566653ba8
Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:30:03 -0800
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:30:03 -0800

x86, idle: Add memory barriers around clflush in mwait_play_dead()

For consistency with mwait_idle_with_hints(). Not sure they help, but
they really won't hurt...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA%2B55aFzGxcML7j8CEvQPYzh0W81uVoAAVmGctMOUZ7CZ1yYd2A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 85dc05a..f5252c4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1417,7 +1417,9 @@ static inline void mwait_play_dead(void)
* The WBINVD is insufficient due to the spurious-wakeup
* case where we return around the loop.
*/
+ mb();
clflush(mwait_ptr);
+ mb();
__monitor(mwait_ptr, 0, 0);
mb();
__mwait(eax, 0);
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