[tip:x86/idle] x86, idle: Use static_cpu_has() for CLFLUSH workaround, add barriers

From: tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Dec 19 2013 - 15:10:22 EST


Commit-ID: 7e98b71920464b8d15fa95c74366416cd3c88861
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/7e98b71920464b8d15fa95c74366416cd3c88861
Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:58:16 -0800
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:58:16 -0800

x86, idle: Use static_cpu_has() for CLFLUSH workaround, add barriers

Use static_cpu_has() to conditionalize the CLFLUSH workaround, and add
memory barriers around it since the documentation is explicit that
CLFLUSH is only ordered with respect to MFENCE.

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/include/asm/mwait.h | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
index 361b02e..19b71c4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
@@ -43,8 +43,11 @@ static inline void __mwait(unsigned long eax, unsigned long ecx)
static inline void mwait_idle_with_hints(unsigned long eax, unsigned long ecx)
{
if (!current_set_polling_and_test()) {
- if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR))
+ if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR)) {
+ mb();
clflush((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags);
+ mb();
+ }

__monitor((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0);
if (!need_resched())
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