* Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > Another thing that is required I think is to issue a write barrier 
> > before CLFLUSH instruction. By my (possibly incorrect ...) reading of 
> > the documentation CLFLUSH does not appear to be ordered (at all), so 
> > it might execute before the modification to the affected memory?
> 
> We already have a write barrier in the code which modifies
> current_thread_info()->flags.

Which code is that, could you please cite it? (I tried finding it but 
my grep-fu failed me.)

Thanks,

        Ingo
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