linux-kernel - Re: invalidate caches before going into suspend

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Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:53:28 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: invalidate caches before going into suspend

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> also, we might be safer if the wbinvd(), the CLI and the halt was in a 
> single assembly sequence:
> 
> 	if (cpu >= i486)
> 		asm ("cli; wbinvd; cli; 1: hlt; jmp 1b")
> 	else
> 		asm ("cli; 1: hlt; jmp 1b")
> 
> to make sure the compiler doesnt ever insert something into this 
> codepath? [ And note the double cli which would be further 
> robustification - in theory we could get a spurious interrupt straight 
> after the wbinvd. ] Hm?
> 

Spurious interrupt of what kind?  The only things that could come in 
would not be non-INT type interrupts, and those aren't affected by CLI.

	-hpa
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