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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index ea408dcba513..7301e60dc4a8 100644
--- 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 */