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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index a654d59e4483..821e97017e95 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -187,11 +187,6 @@ static void flush_tlb_others_ipi(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
                        cpumask, cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()));
 
         /*
-         * Make the above memory operations globally visible before
-         * sending the IPI.
-         */
-        smp_mb();
-        /*
          * We have to send the IPI only to
          * CPUs affected.
          */