Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:00:01 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/11] x86, fpu: add C structures for AVX-512 state components |
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* Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> wrote:
> > From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> > > AVX-512 has 3 separate state components: > 1. opmask registers > 2. zmm upper half of registers 0-15 > 3. new zmm registers (16-31) > > This patch adds C structures for the three components along with > a few comments mostly lifted from the SDM to explain what they > do. This will allow us to check our structures against what the > hardware tells us about the sizes of the components. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> > Cc: x86@kernel.org > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> > Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> > Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > --- > > b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff -puN arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h~avx-512-structs arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h~avx-512-structs 2015-08-27 10:08:03.909740783 -0700 > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h 2015-08-27 10:08:03.912740919 -0700 > @@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ enum xfeature_nr { > struct reg_128_bit { > u8 regbytes[128/8]; > }; > +struct reg_256_bit { > + u8 regbytes[256/8]; > +}; > +struct reg_512_bit { > + u8 regbytes[512/8]; > +}; > > /* > * State component 2: > @@ -177,6 +183,33 @@ struct mpx_bndcsr_state { > }; > } __packed; > > +/* AVX-512 Components: */ > + > +/* > + * State component 5 is used for the 8 64-bit opmask registers > + * k0–k7 (opmask state). > + */ > +struct avx_512_opmask_state { > + u64 opmask_reg[8]; > +} __packed; > + > +/* > + * State component 6 is used for the upper 256 bits of the > + * registers ZMM0–ZMM15. These 16 256-bit values are denoted > + * ZMM0_H–ZMM15_H (ZMM_Hi256 state). > + */ > +struct avx_512_zmm_uppers_state { > + struct reg_256_bit zmm_upper[16]; > +} __packed; > + > +/* > + * State component 7 is used for the 16 512-bit registers > + * ZMM16–ZMM31 (Hi16_ZMM state). > + */ > +struct avx_512_hi16_state { > + struct reg_512_bit hi16_zmm[16]; > +} __packed; > + > struct xstate_header { > u64 xfeatures; > u64 xcomp_bv; > @@ -184,9 +217,13 @@ struct xstate_header { > } __attribute__((packed)); > > /* New processor state extensions should be added here: */ > -#define XSTATE_RESERVE (sizeof(struct ymmh_struct) + \ > - sizeof(struct mpx_bndreg_state) + \ > - sizeof(struct mpx_bndcsr_state) ) > +#define XSTATE_RESERVE (sizeof(struct ymmh_struct) + \ > + sizeof(struct mpx_bndreg_state) + \ > + sizeof(struct mpx_bndcsr_state) + \ > + sizeof(struct avx_512_opmask_state) + \ > + sizeof(struct avx_512_zmm_uppers_state) + \ > + sizeof(struct avx_512_hi16_state))
So in a previous mail I suggested getting rid of XSTATE_RESERVE, which removes the usage of the C structures..
What we could use these C structures for is to double check that the xstate size given by CPUID for that particular xstate feature is equal to the C structure size - or if it's larger, it's a multiple of the natural cache line size, or so?
Any 'failure' in such a check should be print-once and non-fatal, as in 90% of the cases I'd expect the kernel assumptions/checks to be buggy, not the hardware itself.
We should perhaps also print a gentle (non-warning) kernel message if we find an xfeature that the kernel doesn't know about, with its essential parameters: the bit number, the size and the offset position within the xstate buffer.
Thanks,
Ingo
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