Hi Paolo, I had changed the Signed-off-by chain. Could you help to review? Thanks. On 5/22/2018 5:01 PM, Liu, Jingqi wrote: > > The CLDEMOTE instruction hints to hardware that the cache line that contains > the linear address should be moved("demoted") from the cache(s) closest to the > processor core to a level more distant from the processor core. This may > accelerate subsequent accesses to the line by other cores in the same coherence > domain, especially if the line was written by the core that demotes the line. > > This patch exposes the cldemote feature to the guest. > > The release document ref below link: > https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/c5/15/\ > architecture-instruction-set-extensions-programming-reference.pdf > This patch has a dependency on https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/23/928 > > Signed-off-by: Jingqi Liu <jingqi.liu@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c index > 82055b9..72d8c49 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c > @@ -403,7 +403,8 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_ent(struct > kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry, u32 function, > const u32 kvm_cpuid_7_0_ecx_x86_features = > F(AVX512VBMI) | F(LA57) | F(PKU) | 0 /*OSPKE*/ | > F(AVX512_VPOPCNTDQ) | F(UMIP) | F(AVX512_VBMI2) | F(GFNI) > | > - F(VAES) | F(VPCLMULQDQ) | F(AVX512_VNNI) | > F(AVX512_BITALG); > + F(VAES) | F(VPCLMULQDQ) | F(AVX512_VNNI) | > F(AVX512_BITALG) | > + F(CLDEMOTE); > > /* cpuid 7.0.edx*/ > const u32 kvm_cpuid_7_0_edx_x86_features = > -- > 1.8.3.1