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Commit e736ad54 authored by Pallipadi, Venkatesh's avatar Pallipadi, Venkatesh Committed by Ingo Molnar
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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: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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