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x86: Add support for the clflushopt instruction
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Add support for the new clflushopt instruction.  This instruction was
announced in the document "Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extensions
Programming Reference" with Ref # 319433-018.

http://download-software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/50/1a/319433-018.pdf

[ hpa: changed the feature flag to simply X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSHOPT - if
  that is what we want to report in /proc/cpuinfo anyway... ]

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393441612-19729-2-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Ross Zwisler authored and H. Peter Anvin committed Feb 27, 2014
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
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#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_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 */
#define X86_FEATURE_AVX512CD (9*32+28) /* AVX-512 Conflict Detection */
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
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Expand Up @@ -191,6 +191,14 @@ static inline void clflush(volatile void *__p)
asm volatile("clflush %0" : "+m" (*(volatile char __force *)__p));
}

static inline void clflushopt(volatile void *__p)
{
alternative_io(".byte " __stringify(NOP_DS_PREFIX) "; clflush %P0",
".byte 0x66; clflush %P0",
X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSHOPT,
"+m" (*(volatile char __force *)__p));
}

#define nop() asm volatile ("nop")


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