Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86,asm: Re-work smp_store_mb()

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Wed Jan 13 2016 - 11:25:32 EST


On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 05:17:04PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 03:24:05PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > But talking to the hw people about this is certainly a good idea regardless.
>
> I'm not seeing it in this thread but I might've missed it too. Anyway,
> I'm being reminded that the ADD will change rFLAGS while MFENCE doesn't
> touch them.
>
> Do we care?

Which flag do you refer to, exactly?

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> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
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