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x86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series

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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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Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-02-06 16:52:05 -08:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
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commit e736ad548d
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@@ -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 */