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>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index ea408dc..7301e60 100644 (file)
--- 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 */

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index 430e5c3..24ff26a 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -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;

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index e68bb9e..6d12f7e 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -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())