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x86: Disable CLFLUSH support again

It turns out CLFLUSH support is still not complete; we
flush the wrong pages.  Again disable it for the release.
Noticed by Jan Beulich who then also noticed a stupid typo later.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andi Kleen 18 years ago
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2 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 1 1
      arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c
  2. 2 1
      arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c

+ 1 - 1
arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static void flush_kernel_map(void *arg)
 	struct page *p;
 
 	/* High level code is not ready for clflush yet */
-	if (cpu_has_clflush) {
+	if (0 && cpu_has_clflush) {
 		list_for_each_entry (p, lh, lru)
 			cache_flush_page(p);
 	} else if (boot_cpu_data.x86_model >= 4)

+ 2 - 1
arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c

@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ static void flush_kernel_map(void *arg)
 
 	/* When clflush is available always use it because it is
 	   much cheaper than WBINVD. */
-	if (!cpu_has_clflush)
+	/* clflush is still broken. Disable for now. */
+	if (1 || !cpu_has_clflush)
 		asm volatile("wbinvd" ::: "memory");
 	else list_for_each_entry(pg, l, lru) {
 		void *adr = page_address(pg);