From: zach@vmware.com
To: akpm@osdl.org, chrisl@vmware.com, davej@codemonkey.org.uk,
hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pratap@vmware.com,
Riley@Williams.Name, zach@vmware.com
Subject: [PATCH] 2/6 i386 serialize-msr
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:04:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200507300404.j6U44GSC005922@zach-dev.vmware.com> (raw)
i386 arch cleanup. Introduce the serialize macro to serialize processor state.
Why the microcode update needs it I am not quite sure, since wrmsr() is already
a serializing instruction, but it is a microcode update, so I will keep the
semantic the same, since this could be a timing workaround. As far as I can
tell, this has always been there since the original microcode update source.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Index: linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13.orig/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c 2005-07-29 11:14:33.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c 2005-07-29 11:16:18.000000000 -0700
@@ -164,7 +164,8 @@
}
wrmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, 0, 0);
- __asm__ __volatile__ ("cpuid" : : : "ax", "bx", "cx", "dx");
+ /* XXX needed? wrmsr should serialize unless a chip bug */
+ serialize();
/* get the current revision from MSR 0x8B */
rdmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, val[0], uci->rev);
pr_debug("microcode: collect_cpu_info : sig=0x%x, pf=0x%x, rev=0x%x\n",
@@ -377,7 +378,9 @@
(unsigned long) uci->mc->bits >> 16 >> 16);
wrmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, 0, 0);
- __asm__ __volatile__ ("cpuid" : : : "ax", "bx", "cx", "dx");
+ /* XXX needed? wrmsr should serialize unless a chip bug */
+ serialize();
+
/* get the current revision from MSR 0x8B */
rdmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, val[0], val[1]);
Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/processor.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/processor.h 2005-07-29 11:16:10.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/processor.h 2005-07-29 11:16:28.000000000 -0700
@@ -277,6 +277,11 @@
outb((data), 0x23); \
} while (0)
+static inline void serialize(void)
+{
+ __asm__ __volatile__ ("cpuid" : : : "ax", "bx", "cx", "dx");
+}
+
static inline void __monitor(const void *eax, unsigned long ecx,
unsigned long edx)
{
next reply other threads:[~2005-07-30 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-30 4:04 zach [this message]
2005-07-30 10:32 ` [PATCH] 2/6 i386 serialize-msr Pavel Machek
2005-07-30 17:43 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-07-30 17:59 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-07-30 17:55 ` Zachary Amsden
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