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| author | Pallipadi, Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> | 2009-02-06 16:52:05 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-09 11:15:15 +0100 |
| commit | e736ad548db152776de61d7a26805cfae77ce5ce (patch) | |
| tree | bab2cb6560f2e038ccebf891cd847f37fd61a1b8 /arch/x86/kernel/process.c | |
| parent | 0cd5c3c80a0ebd68c08312fa7d8c13149cc61c4c (diff) | |
x86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series
For Intel 7400 series CPUs, the recommendation is to use a clflush on the
monitored address just before monitor and mwait pair [1].
This clflush makes sure that there are no false wakeups from mwait when the
monitored address was recently written to.
[1] "MONITOR/MWAIT Recommendations for Intel Xeon Processor 7400 series"
section in specification update document of 7400 series
http://download.intel.com/design/xeon/specupdt/32033601.pdf
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index e68bb9e30864..6d12f7e37f8c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -180,6 +180,9 @@ void mwait_idle_with_hints(unsigned long ax, unsigned long cx) trace_power_start(&it, POWER_CSTATE, (ax>>4)+1); if (!need_resched()) { + if (cpu_has(¤t_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR)) + clflush((void *)¤t_thread_info()->flags); + __monitor((void *)¤t_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0); smp_mb(); if (!need_resched()) @@ -194,6 +197,9 @@ static void mwait_idle(void) struct power_trace it; if (!need_resched()) { trace_power_start(&it, POWER_CSTATE, 1); + if (cpu_has(¤t_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR)) + clflush((void *)¤t_thread_info()->flags); + __monitor((void *)¤t_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0); smp_mb(); if (!need_resched()) |