From ca59809ff6d572ae58fc6bedf7500f5a60fdbd64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:02:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Len Brown Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: virtualization Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453921746-16178-5-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index 9f7c21c22477..9decee2bfdbe 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -418,9 +418,9 @@ static void mwait_idle(void) if (!current_set_polling_and_test()) { trace_cpu_idle_rcuidle(1, smp_processor_id()); if (this_cpu_has(X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR)) { - smp_mb(); /* quirk */ + mb(); /* quirk */ clflush((void *)¤t_thread_info()->flags); - smp_mb(); /* quirk */ + mb(); /* quirk */ } __monitor((void *)¤t_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0); -- 2.34.1