x86/asm: Add MONITORX/MWAITX instruction support
authorHuang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:19:53 +0000 (12:19 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:52:16 +0000 (14:52 +0200)
commitf96756746c7909de37db3d03ac5fd5cfb2757f38
tree45032ea51d40f96f21b0e1c534b0c360eb01dee4
parentf0a97af83f6287357dcc100c859ec0066f164f32
x86/asm: Add MONITORX/MWAITX instruction support

AMD Carrizo processors (Family 15h, Models 60h-6fh) added a new
feature called MWAITX (MWAIT with extensions) as an extension to
MONITOR/MWAIT.

This new instruction controls a configurable timer which causes
the core to exit wait state on timer expiration, in addition to
"normal" MWAIT condition of reading from a monitored VA.

Compared to MONITOR/MWAIT, there are minor differences in opcode
and input parameters:

MWAITX ECX[1]: enable timer if set
MWAITX EBX[31:0]: max wait time expressed in SW P0 clocks ==
TSC. The software P0 frequency is the same as the TSC frequency.

                MWAIT                           MWAITX
opcode          0f 01 c9           |            0f 01 fb
ECX[0]                  value of RFLAGS.IF seen by instruction
ECX[1]          unused/#GP if set  |            enable timer if set
ECX[31:2]                     unused/#GP if set
EAX                           unused (reserve for hint)
EBX[31:0]       unused             |            max wait time (SW P0 == TSC)

                MONITOR                         MONITORX
opcode          0f 01 c8           |            0f 01 fa
EAX                     (logical) address to monitor
ECX                     #GP if not zero

Max timeout = EBX/(TSC frequency)

Signed-off-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Li <tony.li@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439201994-28067-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h