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Kyung Min Park cec5f268cd x86/delay: Introduce TPAUSE delay
TPAUSE instructs the processor to enter an implementation-dependent
optimized state. The instruction execution wakes up when the time-stamp
counter reaches or exceeds the implicit EDX:EAX 64-bit input value.
The instruction execution also wakes up due to the expiration of
the operating system time-limit or by an external interrupt
or exceptions such as a debug exception or a machine check exception.

TPAUSE offers a choice of two lower power states:
 1. Light-weight power/performance optimized state C0.1
 2. Improved power/performance optimized state C0.2

This way, it can save power with low wake-up latency in comparison to
spinloop based delay. The selection between the two is governed by the
input register.

TPAUSE is available on processors with X86_FEATURE_WAITPKG.

Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyung Min Park <kyung.min.park@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1587757076-30337-4-git-send-email-kyung.min.park@intel.com
2020-05-07 16:06:20 +02:00
Jason A. Donenfeld e6abef610c x86: update AS_* macros to binutils >=2.23, supporting ADX and AVX2
Now that the kernel specifies binutils 2.23 as the minimum version, we
can remove ifdefs for AVX2 and ADX throughout.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-04-09 00:12:48 +09:00
Masahiro Yamada e9e070cfe1 x86: add comments about the binutils version to support code in as-instr
We raise the minimal supported binutils version from time to time.
The last bump was commit 1fb12b35e5 ("kbuild: Raise the minimum
required binutils version to 2.21").

We have these as-instr tests because binutils 2.21 does not support
them.

When we bump the binutils version next time, this will be a good
hint to find out which one can be dropped.

As for the Clang/LLVM builds, we require very new LLVM version,
so the LLVM integrated assembler supports all of them.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
2020-04-09 00:01:59 +09:00
Jason A. Donenfeld 5e8ebd841a x86: probe assembler capabilities via kconfig instead of makefile
Doing this probing inside of the Makefiles means we have a maze of
ifdefs inside the source code and child Makefiles that need to make
proper decisions on this too. Instead, we do it at Kconfig time, like
many other compiler and assembler options, which allows us to set up the
dependencies normally for full compilation units. In the process, the
ADX test changes to use %eax instead of %r10 so that it's valid in both
32-bit and 64-bit mode.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-04-09 00:01:59 +09:00