From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:16:54 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: x86: add x2apic_wrmsr_fence() to x2apic flush tlb paths
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.30-rc1~211^2~21^11
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x86: add x2apic_wrmsr_fence() to x2apic flush tlb paths

Impact: optimize APIC IPI related barriers

Uncached MMIO accesses for xapic are inherently serializing and hence
we don't need explicit barriers for xapic IPI paths.

x2apic MSR writes/reads don't have serializing semantics and hence need
a serializing instruction or mfence, to make all the previous memory
stores globally visisble before the x2apic msr write for IPI.

Add x2apic_wrmsr_fence() in flush tlb path to x2apic specific paths.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "steiner@sgi.com" <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <1237313814.27006.203.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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