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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 <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239402084.27006.8057.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Suresh Siddha
2009-04-10 15:21:24 -07:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 1ee4bd92a7
commit a30469e792
4 changed files with 15 additions and 2 deletions
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arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
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@ -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];
@ -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)));