[PATCH] i386: cleanup serialize msr
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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h b/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h
index 85549e6..194160f 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h
@@ -437,6 +437,11 @@
outb((data), 0x23); \
} while (0)
+static inline void serialize_cpu(void)
+{
+ __asm__ __volatile__ ("cpuid" : : : "ax", "bx", "cx", "dx");
+}
+
static inline void __monitor(const void *eax, unsigned long ecx,
unsigned long edx)
{