Current minimum required version of binutils is 2.25, which supports PAUSE instruction mnemonic.
Replace "REP; NOP" with this proper mnemonic. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at> Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.iva...@cambridgegreys.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> --- arch/x86/um/asm/processor.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/um/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/um/asm/processor.h index 478710384b34..233a7a0d29c9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/um/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/x86/um/asm/processor.h @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ /* REP NOP (PAUSE) is a good thing to insert into busy-wait loops. */ static __always_inline void rep_nop(void) { - __asm__ __volatile__("rep;nop": : :"memory"); + __asm__ __volatile__("pause": : :"memory"); } static __always_inline void cpu_relax(void) -- 2.42.0