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Commit 3c868823 authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86: c_p_a() fix: reorder TLB / cache flushes to follow Intel recommendation


Intel recommends to first flush the TLBs and then the caches
on caching attribute changes. c_p_a() previously did it the
other way round. Reorder that.

The procedure is still not fully compliant to the Intel documentation
because Intel recommends a all CPU synchronization step between
the TLB flushes and the cache flushes.

However on all new Intel CPUs this is now meaningless anyways
because they support Self-Snoop and can skip the cache flush
step anyway.

[ mingo@elte.hu: decoupled from clflush and ported it to x86.git ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 6ba9b7d8
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