ordered with the MFENCE instruction. Similar weak guarantees are also
specified by the AMD APM vol. 3 rev. 3.22. x86 pmap methods
pmap_invalidate_cache_range() and pmap_invalidate_cache_pages() braced
CLFLUSH loop with MFENCE both before and after the loop.
In the revision 56 of SDM, Intel stated that all existing
implementations of CLFLUSH are strict, CLFLUSH instructions execution
is ordered WRT other CLFLUSH and writes. Also, the strict behaviour
is made architectural.
A new instruction CLFLUSHOPT (which was documented for some time in
the Instruction Set Extensions Programming Reference) provides the
weak behaviour which was previously attributed to CLFLUSH.
Use CLFLUSHOPT when available. When CLFLUSH is used on Intel CPUs, do
not execute MFENCE before and after the flushing loop.
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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