linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH](retry 2) Re: invalidate caches before going into suspend

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Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:47:05 -0500
From:	"Langsdorf, Mark" <mark.langsdorf@....com>
To:	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>
CC:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: RE: [PATCH](retry 2) Re: invalidate caches before going into suspend

> Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@....com> wrote:
> > +	/* mask all interrupts, flush any and all caches, and halt */
> > +	if (cpu_has_clflush)
> > +		wbinvd_halt();
> > +	else
> > +		while (1)
> > +			halt();
> >  }
> 
> I like the asm version .. but this code makes me blink.
> when you HAVE clflush you do wbinvd.
> yeah I know it's correct but... it reads wonky ;)

It's the most convenient symbol to test against.  I
suppose I should add a comment explaining it.

> also.. can we move that check into the wbinvd_halt() itself, so that
> the callers don't need to care what is used to select it ?

irqflags.h doesn't guarantee the presence of boot_cpu_data, 
so I wasn't able to make that check cleanly.  I could move
the macro definition to process_??.c if that would better.

-Mark Langsdorf
Operating System Research Center
AMD

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