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x86: add linux kernel support for YMM state
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Impact: save/restore Intel-AVX state properly between tasks

Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) introduce 256-bit vector processing
capability. More about AVX at http://software.intel.com/sites/avx

Add OS support for YMM state management using xsave/xrstor infrastructure
to support AVX.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Suresh Siddha authored and Ingo Molnar committed Apr 12, 2009
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
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Expand Up @@ -352,6 +352,11 @@ struct i387_soft_struct {
u32 entry_eip;
};

struct ymmh_struct {
/* 16 * 16 bytes for each YMMH-reg = 256 bytes */
u32 ymmh_space[64];
};

struct xsave_hdr_struct {
u64 xstate_bv;
u64 reserved1[2];
Expand All @@ -361,6 +366,7 @@ struct xsave_hdr_struct {
struct xsave_struct {
struct i387_fxsave_struct i387;
struct xsave_hdr_struct xsave_hdr;
struct ymmh_struct ymmh;
/* new processor state extensions will go here */
} __attribute__ ((packed, aligned (64)));

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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h
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Expand Up @@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ struct _xsave_hdr {
__u64 reserved2[5];
};

struct _ymmh_state {
/* 16 * 16 bytes for each YMMH-reg */
__u32 ymmh_space[64];
};

/*
* Extended state pointed by the fpstate pointer in the sigcontext.
* In addition to the fpstate, information encoded in the xstate_hdr
Expand All @@ -278,6 +283,7 @@ struct _xsave_hdr {
struct _xstate {
struct _fpstate fpstate;
struct _xsave_hdr xstate_hdr;
struct _ymmh_state ymmh;
/* new processor state extensions go here */
};

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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h
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#define XSTATE_FP 0x1
#define XSTATE_SSE 0x2
#define XSTATE_YMM 0x4

#define XSTATE_FPSSE (XSTATE_FP | XSTATE_SSE)

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/*
* These are the features that the OS can handle currently.
*/
#define XCNTXT_MASK (XSTATE_FP | XSTATE_SSE)
#define XCNTXT_MASK (XSTATE_FP | XSTATE_SSE | XSTATE_YMM)

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
#define REX_PREFIX "0x48, "
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
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Expand Up @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ void __ref xsave_cntxt_init(void)
}

/*
* for now OS knows only about FP/SSE
* Support only the state known to OS.
*/
pcntxt_mask = pcntxt_mask & XCNTXT_MASK;
xsave_init();
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