summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/arch
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
index e7e9682a33e9..f556c4843aa1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
@@ -80,9 +80,11 @@ static inline unsigned int __getcpu(void)
/*
* Load per CPU data from GDT. LSL is faster than RDTSCP and
- * works on all CPUs.
+ * works on all CPUs. This is volatile so that it orders
+ * correctly wrt barrier() and to keep gcc from cleverly
+ * hoisting it out of the calling function.
*/
- asm("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
+ asm volatile ("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
return p;
}