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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
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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>
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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h1
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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index ea408dc..7301e60 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@
#define X86_FEATURE_XTOPOLOGY (3*32+22) /* cpu topology enum extensions */
#define X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE (3*32+23) /* TSC is known to be reliable */
#define X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC (3*32+24) /* TSC does not stop in C states */
+#define X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR (3*32+25) /* "" clflush reqd with monitor */
/* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000001 (ecx), word 4 */
#define X86_FEATURE_XMM3 (4*32+ 0) /* "pni" SSE-3 */
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