From e736ad548db152776de61d7a26805cfae77ce5ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:52:05 -0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index e68bb9e3086..6d12f7e37f8 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()) -- cgit v1.2.3