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authorPallipadi, Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>2009-02-06 16:52:05 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-09 11:15:15 +0100
commite736ad548db152776de61d7a26805cfae77ce5ce (patch)
treebab2cb6560f2e038ccebf891cd847f37fd61a1b8 /arch/x86/kernel
parent0cd5c3c80a0ebd68c08312fa7d8c13149cc61c4c (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')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c3
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process.c6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index 430e5c38a54..24ff26a38ad 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ static void __cpuinit init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
ds_init_intel(c);
}
+ if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model == 29 && cpu_has_clflush)
+ set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
if (c->x86 == 15)
c->x86_cache_alignment = c->x86_clflush_size * 2;
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(&current_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR))
+ clflush((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags);
+
__monitor((void *)&current_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(&current_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR))
+ clflush((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags);
+
__monitor((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0);
smp_mb();
if (!need_resched())