[PATCH 1/6] x86: Add support for the pcommit instruction

Ross Zwisler ross.zwisler at linux.intel.com
Tue Nov 11 10:43:11 PST 2014


Add support for the new pcommit instruction.  This instruction was
announced in the document "Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extensions
Programming Reference" with reference number 319433-022.

https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/0d/53/319433-022.pdf

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler at linux.intel.com>
Cc: H Peter Anvin <h.peter.anvin at intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h    | 1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 0bb1335..b3e6b89 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_RDSEED	( 9*32+18) /* The RDSEED instruction */
 #define X86_FEATURE_ADX		( 9*32+19) /* The ADCX and ADOX instructions */
 #define X86_FEATURE_SMAP	( 9*32+20) /* Supervisor Mode Access Prevention */
+#define X86_FEATURE_PCOMMIT	( 9*32+22) /* PCOMMIT instruction */
 #define X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSHOPT	( 9*32+23) /* CLFLUSHOPT instruction */
 #define X86_FEATURE_AVX512PF	( 9*32+26) /* AVX-512 Prefetch */
 #define X86_FEATURE_AVX512ER	( 9*32+27) /* AVX-512 Exponential and Reciprocal */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
index e820c08..1709a2e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
@@ -199,6 +199,12 @@ static inline void clflushopt(volatile void *__p)
 		       "+m" (*(volatile char __force *)__p));
 }
 
+static inline void pcommit(void)
+{
+	alternative(ASM_NOP4, ".byte 0x66, 0x0f, 0xae, 0xf8",
+		    X86_FEATURE_PCOMMIT);
+}
+
 #define nop() asm volatile ("nop")
 
 
-- 
1.9.3



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