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...to mb() instead. Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket at online.de> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- 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 9f7c21c..9decee2 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(); /* q...

mb() typically uses mfence on modern x86, but a micro-benchmark shows that it's 2 to 3 times slower than lock; addl that we use on older CPUs. So we really should use the locked variant everywhere, except that intel manual says that clflush is only ordered by mfence, so we can't. Note: some callers of clflush seems to assume sfence will order it, so there could be existing bugs around

mb() typically uses mfence on modern x86, but a micro-benchmark shows that it's 2 to 3 times slower than lock; addl that we use on older CPUs. So we really should use the locked variant everywhere, except that intel manual says that clflush is only ordered by mfence, so we can't. Note: some callers of clflush seems to assume sfence will order it, so there could be existing bugs around

mb() typically uses mfence on modern x86, but a micro-benchmark shows that it's 2 to 3 times slower than lock; addl that we use on older CPUs. So we really should use the locked variant everywhere, except that intel manual says that clflush is only ordered by mfence, so we can't. Note: some callers of clflush seems to assume sfence will order it, so there could be existing bugs around

mb() typically uses mfence on modern x86, but a micro-benchmark shows that it's 2 to 3 times slower than lock; addl that we use on older CPUs. So we really should use the locked variant everywhere, except that intel manual says that clflush is only ordered by mfence, so we can't. Note: some callers of clflush seems to assume sfence will order it, so there could be existing bugs around