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>
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