The new IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS MSR allows system software to give
hardware a hint whether OS policy favors more power saving,
or more performance. This allows the OS to have some influence
on internal hardware power/performance tradeoffs where the OS
has previously had no influence.
The support for this feature is indicated by CPUID.06H.ECX.bit3,
as documented in the Intel Architectures Software Developer's Manual.
This patch discovers support of this feature and displays it
as "epb" in /proc/cpuinfo.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006032310160.6669@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
gcc 3 is too braindamaged to be able to compile static_cpu_has() --
apparently it can't tell that a constant passed to an inline function
is still a constant -- so if we're using gcc 3, just use the dynamic
test. This is bad for performance, but if you care about performance,
don't use an ancient, known-to-optimize-poorly compiler.
Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BF2FF82.7090005@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, fpu: Use static_cpu_has() to implement use_xsave()
x86: Add new static_cpu_has() function using alternatives
x86, fpu: Use the proper asm constraint in use_xsave()
x86, fpu: Unbreak FPU emulation
x86: Introduce 'struct fpu' and related API
x86: Eliminate TS_XSAVE
x86-32: Don't set ignore_fpu_irq in simd exception
x86: Merge kernel_math_error() into math_error()
x86: Merge simd_math_error() into math_error()
x86-32: Rework cache flush denied handler
Fix trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
For CPU-feature-specific code that touches performance-critical paths,
introduce a static patching version of [boot_]cpu_has(). This is run
at alternatives time and is therefore not appropriate for most
initialization code, but on the other hand initialization code is
generally not performance critical.
On gcc 4.5+ this uses the new "asm goto" feature.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273135546-29690-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
By semi-popular demand, this adds the Core Performance Boost feature
flag to /proc/cpuinfo. Possible use case for this is userspace tools
like cpufreq-aperf, for example, so that they don't have to jump through
hoops of accessing "/dev/cpu/%d/cpuid" in order to check for CPB hw
support, or call cpuid from userspace.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1270065406-1814-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This patch adds code to cpu initialization path to detect
the extended virtualization features of AMD cpus to show
them in /proc/cpuinfo.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260792521-15212-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Use NodeId MSR to get NodeId and number of nodes per processor.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091216144355.GB28798@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
PCLMULQDQ is used to accelerate the most time-consuming part of GHASH,
carry-less multiplication. More information about PCLMULQDQ can be
found at:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/carry-less-multiplication-and-its-usage-for-computing-the-gcm-mode/
Because PCLMULQDQ changes XMM state, its usage must be enclosed with
kernel_fpu_begin/end, which can be used only in process context, the
acceleration is implemented as crypto_ahash. That is, request in soft
IRQ context will be defered to the cryptd kernel thread.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Move the APERFMPERF capacility into a X86_FEATURE flag so that it
can be used outside of the acpi cpufreq driver.
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Construct entire NodeID and use it as cpu_llc_id. Thus internal node
siblings are stored in llc_shared_map.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (138 commits)
KVM: Prevent overflow in largepages calculation
KVM: Disable large pages on misaligned memory slots
KVM: Add VT-x machine check support
KVM: VMX: Rename rmode.active to rmode.vm86_active
KVM: Move "exit due to NMI" handling into vmx_complete_interrupts()
KVM: Disable CR8 intercept if tpr patching is active
KVM: Do not migrate pending software interrupts.
KVM: inject NMI after IRET from a previous NMI, not before.
KVM: Always request IRQ/NMI window if an interrupt is pending
KVM: Do not re-execute INTn instruction.
KVM: skip_emulated_instruction() decode instruction if size is not known
KVM: Remove irq_pending bitmap
KVM: Do not allow interrupt injection from userspace if there is a pending event.
KVM: Unprotect a page if #PF happens during NMI injection.
KVM: s390: Verify memory in kvm run
KVM: s390: Sanity check on validity intercept
KVM: s390: Unlink vcpu on destroy - v2
KVM: s390: optimize float int lock: spin_lock_bh --> spin_lock
KVM: s390: use hrtimer for clock wakeup from idle - v2
KVM: s390: Fix memory slot versus run - v3
...
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Clear TS in irq_ts_save() when in an atomic section
x86: Detect use of extended APIC ID for AMD CPUs
x86: memtest: remove 64-bit division
x86, UV: Fix macros for multiple coherency domains
x86: Fix non-lazy GS handling in sys_vm86()
x86: Add quirk for reboot stalls on a Dell Optiplex 360
x86: Fix UV BAU activation descriptor init
Booting a 32-bit kernel on Magny-Cours results in the following panic:
...
Using APIC driver default
...
Overriding APIC driver with bigsmp
...
Getting VERSION: 80050010
Getting VERSION: 80050010
Getting ID: 10000000
Getting ID: ef000000
Getting LVT0: 700
Getting LVT1: 10000
Kernel panic - not syncing: Boot APIC ID in local APIC unexpected (16 vs 0)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-rcX #2
Call Trace:
[<c05194da>] ? panic+0x38/0xd3
[<c0743102>] ? native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x259/0x31f
[<c073b19d>] ? kernel_init+0x3e/0x141
[<c073b15f>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x141
[<c020325f>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
The reason is that default_get_apic_id handled extension of local APIC
ID field just in case of XAPIC.
Thus for this AMD CPU, default_get_apic_id() returns 0 and
bigsmp_get_apic_id() returns 16 which leads to the respective kernel
panic.
This patch introduces a Linux specific feature flag to indicate
support for extended APIC id (8 bits instead of 4 bits width) and sets
the flag on AMD CPUs if applicable.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090608135509.GA12431@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
setup_force_cpu_cap() only have one user (Xen guest code),
but it should not reuse cleared_cpu_cpus, otherwise it
will have problems on SMP.
Need to have a separate cpu_cpus_set array too, for forced-on
flags, beyond the forced-off flags.
Also need to setup handling before all cpus caps are combined.
[ Impact: fix the forced-set CPU feature flag logic ]
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add support for Always Running APIC timer, CPUID_0x6_EAX_Bit2.
This bit means the APIC timer continues to run even when CPU is
in deep C-states.
The advantage is that we can use LAPIC timer on these CPUs
always, and there is no need for "slow to read and program"
external timers (HPET/PIT) and the timer broadcast logic
and related code in C-state entry and exit.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Intel AES-NI is a new set of Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
instructions that are going to be introduced in the next generation of
Intel processor, as of 2009. These instructions enable fast and secure
data encryption and decryption, using the Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES), defined by FIPS Publication number 197. The architecture
introduces six instructions that offer full hardware support for
AES. Four of them support high performance data encryption and
decryption, and the other two instructions support the AES key
expansion procedure.
The white paper can be downloaded from:
http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/downloads/intelavx/AES-Instructions-Set_WP.pdf
AES may be used in soft_irq context, but MMX/SSE context can not be
touched safely in soft_irq context. So in_interrupt() is checked, if
in IRQ or soft_irq context, the general x86_64 implementation are used
instead.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
For Intel 7400 series CPUs, the recommendation is to use a clflush on the
monitored address just before monitor and mwait pair [1].
This clflush makes sure that there are no false wakeups from mwait when the
monitored address was recently written to.
[1] "MONITOR/MWAIT Recommendations for Intel Xeon Processor 7400 series"
section in specification update document of 7400 series
http://download.intel.com/design/xeon/specupdt/32033601.pdf
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new synthetic-cpuid bit definition
add X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC to the cpufeature bits - this is in
preparation of Venki's always-running-TSC patch.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Remove duplicate #define from 'cpufeature.h'.
This also fixes the following sparse warning:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/capflags.c:54:3: warning: Initializer entry defined twice
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/capflags.c:58:3: also defined here
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: None, bit reservation only
Add a synthetic TSC_RELIABLE feature bit which will be used to mark
TSC as reliable so that we could skip all the runtime checks for
TSC stablity, which have false positives in virtual environment.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
