Commit e736ad54 authored by Pallipadi, Venkatesh's avatar Pallipadi, Venkatesh Committed by Ingo Molnar

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.pdfSigned-off-by: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 0cd5c3c8
......@@ -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 */
......
......@@ -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;
......
......@@ -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())
......
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