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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c index 3ca3e46aa405..24e94ce454e2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c @@ -336,6 +336,13 @@ static void __setup_APIC_LVTT(unsigned int clocks, int oneshot, int irqen) apic_write(APIC_LVTT, lvtt_value); if (lvtt_value & APIC_LVT_TIMER_TSCDEADLINE) { + /* + * See Intel SDM: TSC-Deadline Mode chapter. In xAPIC mode, + * writing to the APIC LVTT and TSC_DEADLINE MSR isn't serialized. + * According to Intel, MFENCE can do the serialization here. + */ + asm volatile("mfence" : : : "memory"); + printk_once(KERN_DEBUG "TSC deadline timer enabled\n"); return; } |
