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| author | Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> | 2012-09-06 14:58:52 -0700 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2012-09-18 15:52:22 -0700 |
| commit | 5d2bd7009f306c82afddd1ca4d9763ad8473c216 (patch) | |
| tree | 772bc888c48766b892e216c19e938c82657e2b0e /arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | |
| parent | 304bceda6a18ae0b0240b8aac9a6bdf8ce2d2469 (diff) | |
x86, fpu: decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore from xsave
Decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore policy from the existence of the xsave
feature. Introduce a synthetic CPUID flag to represent the eagerfpu
policy. "eagerfpu=on" boot paramter will enable the policy.
Requested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-2-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h index 6b7ee5ff682..5dd2b473ccf 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ #define X86_FEATURE_EXTD_APICID (3*32+26) /* has extended APICID (8 bits) */ #define X86_FEATURE_AMD_DCM (3*32+27) /* multi-node processor */ #define X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF (3*32+28) /* APERFMPERF */ +#define X86_FEATURE_EAGER_FPU (3*32+29) /* "eagerfpu" Non lazy FPU restore */ /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000001 (ecx), word 4 */ #define X86_FEATURE_XMM3 (4*32+ 0) /* "pni" SSE-3 */ @@ -305,6 +306,7 @@ extern const char * const x86_power_flags[32]; #define cpu_has_perfctr_core boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PERFCTR_CORE) #define cpu_has_cx8 boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CX8) #define cpu_has_cx16 boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CX16) +#define cpu_has_eager_fpu boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_EAGER_FPU) #if defined(CONFIG_X86_INVLPG) || defined(CONFIG_X86_64) # define cpu_has_invlpg 1 |