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[v4,0/2] x86/fpu: Make AMX state ready for CPU idle

Message ID 20220517222430.24524-1-chang.seok.bae@intel.com (mailing list archive)
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Chang S. Bae May 17, 2022, 10:24 p.m. UTC 
Hi,

First of all, my apologies for the long delay with my vacation.

Changes from v3 [1]:
* Call out AMX state only needs to be initialized for CPU idle (Thomas).
* Drop the XCR0 accessor changes as not relevant (Dave).

The series is available here:
  git://github.com/intel/amx-linux.git tilerelease

=== Original Cover Letter ===

AMX state is a large state (at least 8KB or more). Entering CPU idle with
this non-initialized large state may result in shallow states while a
deeper low-power state is available.

We can confirm this behavior is implementation-specific. Section 3.3 in [2]
will be updated to clarify this.

Thanks,
Chang

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220325022219.829-1-chang.seok.bae@intel.com/
[2]: Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extension Programming Reference
     May 2021, https://software.intel.com/content/dam/develop/external/us/en/documents-tps/architecture-instruction-set-extensions-programming-reference.pdf

Chang S. Bae (2):
  x86/fpu: Add a helper to prepare AMX state for low-power CPU idle
  intel_idle: Add a new flag to initialize the AMX state

 arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h       |  2 ++
 arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h |  9 +++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c           | 13 +++++++++++++
 drivers/idle/intel_idle.c            | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


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