From 1f96b1efbad4bb753e7fd265753f6cac1cdc5648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:01:58 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Add placeholder for 'Processor Trace' XSAVE state There is an XSAVE state component for Intel Processor Trace (PT). But, we do not currently use it. We add a placeholder in the code for it so it is not a mystery and also so we do not need an explicit enum initialization for Protection Keys in a moment. Why don't we use it? We might end up using this at _some_ point in the future. But, this is a "system" state which requires using the currently unsupported XSAVES feature. Unlike all the other XSAVE states, PT state is also not directly tied to a thread. You might context-switch between threads, but not want to change any of the PT state. Or, you might switch between threads, and *do* want to change PT state, all depending on what is being traced. We currently just manually set some MSRs to do this PT context switching, and it is unclear whether replacing our direct MSR use with XSAVE will be a net win or loss, both in code complexity and performance. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: yu-cheng.yu@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210158.5E4BCAE2@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c | 10 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h index 1c6f6ac52ad0..aad3181c9b7b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h @@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ enum xfeature { XFEATURE_OPMASK, XFEATURE_ZMM_Hi256, XFEATURE_Hi16_ZMM, + XFEATURE_PT_UNIMPLEMENTED_SO_FAR, XFEATURE_MAX, }; diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c index d425cda5ae6d..c2e2349dbcfe 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c @@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ #include +/* + * Although we spell it out in here, the Processor Trace + * xfeature is completely unused. We use other mechanisms + * to save/restore PT state in Linux. + */ static const char *xfeature_names[] = { "x87 floating point registers" , @@ -23,7 +28,7 @@ static const char *xfeature_names[] = "AVX-512 opmask" , "AVX-512 Hi256" , "AVX-512 ZMM_Hi256" , - "unknown xstate feature" , + "Processor Trace (unused)" , }; /* @@ -470,7 +475,8 @@ static void check_xstate_against_struct(int nr) * numbers. */ if ((nr < XFEATURE_YMM) || - (nr >= XFEATURE_MAX)) { + (nr >= XFEATURE_MAX) || + (nr == XFEATURE_PT_UNIMPLEMENTED_SO_FAR)) { WARN_ONCE(1, "no structure for xstate: %d\n", nr); XSTATE_WARN_ON(1); } -- 2.20.1