Commit a8a08f1e authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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x86/process: Move the buffer clearing before MONITOR



From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>

Commit 8e786a85 upstream.

Move the VERW clearing before the MONITOR so that VERW doesn't disarm it
and the machine never enters C1.

Original idea by Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>.

Suggested-by: default avatarAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 6fea1a4e
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