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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2016-01-28 19:02:51 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-01-29 09:40:10 +0100
commitca59809ff6d572ae58fc6bedf7500f5a60fdbd64 (patch)
tree749a05c11156c6085bb46b289a0409b59537c5ca /arch/x86/kernel/process.c
parent57d9b1b43433a6ba7267c80b87d8e8f6e86edceb (diff)
locking/x86: Use mb() around clflush()
The following commit: f8e617f4582995f ("sched/idle/x86: Optimize unnecessary mwait_idle() resched IPIs") adds memory barriers around clflush(), but this seems wrong for UP since barrier() has no effect on clflush(). We really want MFENCE, so switch to mb() instead. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453921746-16178-5-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 9f7c21c22477..9decee2bfdbe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -418,9 +418,9 @@ static void mwait_idle(void)
if (!current_set_polling_and_test()) {
trace_cpu_idle_rcuidle(1, smp_processor_id());
if (this_cpu_has(X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR)) {
- smp_mb(); /* quirk */
+ mb(); /* quirk */
clflush((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags);
- smp_mb(); /* quirk */
+ mb(); /* quirk */
}
__monitor((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0);