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locking/x86: Use mb() around clflush()
authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:02:51 +0000 (19:02 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:40:10 +0000 (09:40 +0100)
commitca59809ff6d572ae58fc6bedf7500f5a60fdbd64
tree749a05c11156c6085bb46b289a0409b59537c5ca
parent57d9b1b43433a6ba7267c80b87d8e8f6e86edceb
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>
arch/x86/kernel/process.c