Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2018 13:38:26 -0800 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] x86/fpu: track AVX-512 usage of tasks |
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> I misunderstood, you mean 32bit kernel, not 32bit machine. Theoretically 32bit > kernel can use AVX512, but not sure if anyone use it like this. get_jiffies_64() > includes jiffies_lock ops so not good in context switch. So I want to use raw > jiffies_64 here. jiffies is a good candidate but it has wraparound overflow issue. > Other time source are expensive here. > > Should I limit the code only running on 64bit kernel?
Yes making it 64bit only should be fine.
Other alternative would be to use 32bit jiffies on 32bit. I assume wrapping is not that big a problem here.
-Andi
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