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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: adjust placement of pause insn in _raw_spin_loc

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: adjust placement of pause insn in _raw_spin_lock()
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:49:05 +0100
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Index: 2008-08-06/xen/include/asm-x86/spinlock.h
===================================================================
--- 2008-08-06.orig/xen/include/asm-x86/spinlock.h      2007-09-10 
09:59:37.000000000 +0200
+++ 2008-08-06/xen/include/asm-x86/spinlock.h   2008-08-07 12:36:13.000000000 
+0200
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ static inline void _raw_spin_lock(spinlo
         "1:  lock; decb %0         \n"
         "    js 2f                 \n"
         ".section .text.lock,\"ax\"\n"
-        "2:  cmpb $0,%0            \n"
-        "    rep; nop              \n"
+        "2:  rep; nop              \n"
+        "    cmpb $0,%0            \n"
         "    jle 2b                \n"
         "    jmp 1b                \n"
         ".previous"




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