From 7d590cca7cd2cce4ed7c47d221d6f90566653ba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:30:03 -0800 Subject: 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 Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Len Brown Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA%2B55aFzGxcML7j8CEvQPYzh0W81uVoAAVmGctMOUZ7CZ1yYd2A@mail.gmail.com --- arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c index 85dc05a3aa02..f5252c4eec8c 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); -- cgit v1.2.3