From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
There is an XSAVE state component for Intel Processor Trace. But,
we do not use it and do not expect to ever use it.
We add a placeholder in the code for it so it is not a mystery and
also so we do not need an explicit enum initialization for Protection
Keys in a moment.
Why will we never use it? According to Andi Kleen:
The XSAVE support assumes that there is a single buffer
for each thread. But perf generally doesn't work this
way, it usually has only a single perf event per CPU per
user, and when tracing multiple threads on that CPU it
inherits perf event buffers between different threads. So
XSAVE per thread cannot handle this inheritance case
directly.
Using multiple XSAVE areas (another one per perf event)
would defeat some of the state caching that the CPUs do.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h | 1 +
b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c | 10 ++++++++--
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h~pt-xstate-bit arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h~pt-xstate-bit 2015-09-28 11:39:41.443977969 -0700
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h 2015-09-28 11:39:41.448978197 -0700
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ enum xfeature {
XFEATURE_OPMASK,
XFEATURE_ZMM_Hi256,
XFEATURE_Hi16_ZMM,
+ XFEATURE_PT_UNIMPLEMENTED_SO_FAR,
XFEATURE_MAX,
};
diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c~pt-xstate-bit arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c~pt-xstate-bit 2015-09-28 11:39:41.445978060 -0700
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c 2015-09-28 11:39:41.449978242 -0700
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
+/*
+ * Although we spell it out in here, the Processor Trace
+ * xfeature is completely unused. We use other mechanisms
+ * to save/restore PT state in Linux.
+ */
static const char *xfeature_names[] =
{
"x87 floating point registers" ,
@@ -23,7 +28,7 @@ static const char *xfeature_names[] =
"AVX-512 opmask" ,
"AVX-512 Hi256" ,
"AVX-512 ZMM_Hi256" ,
- "unknown xstate feature" ,
+ "Processor Trace (unused)" ,
};
/*
@@ -469,7 +474,8 @@ static void check_xstate_against_struct(
* numbers.
*/
if ((nr < XFEATURE_YMM) ||
- (nr >= XFEATURE_MAX)) {
+ (nr >= XFEATURE_MAX) ||
+ (nr == XFEATURE_PT_UNIMPLEMENTED_SO_FAR)) {
WARN_ONCE(1, "no structure for xstate: %d\n", nr);
XSTATE_WARN_ON(1);
}
_
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