Commit 0274f955 authored Jan 20, 2017 by Grzegorz Andrejczuk Committed by Thomas Gleixner Feb 04, 2017

x86/elf: Add HWCAP2 to expose ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT

Introduce ELF_HWCAP2 variable for x86 and reserve its bit 0 to expose the
ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT.

HWCAP variables contain bitmasks which can be used by userspace
applications to detect which instruction sets are supported by CPU. On x86
architecture information about CPU capabilities can be checked via CPUID
instructions, unfortunately presence of ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature cannot
be checked this way. ELF_HWCAP cannot be used as well, because on x86 it is
set to CPUID[1].EDX which means that all bits are reserved there.

HWCAP2 approach was chosen because it reuses existing solution present
in other architectures, so only minor modifications are required to the
kernel and userspace applications. When ELF_HWCAP2 is defined
kernel maps it to AT_HWCAP2 during the start of the application.
This way the ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature can be detected using getauxval()
API in a simple and fast manner. ELF_HWCAP2 type is u32 to be consistent
with x86 ELF_HWCAP type.

Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Andrejczuk <grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com>
Cc: Piotr.Luc@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484918557-15481-3-git-send-email-grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

parent ae47eda9

arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h

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		@@ -258,6 +258,15 @@ extern int force_personality32;

		#define ELF_HWCAP (boot_cpu_data.x86_capability[CPUID_1_EDX])

		extern u32 elf_hwcap2;

		/*
		* HWCAP2 supplies mask with kernel enabled CPU features, so that
		* the application can discover that it can safely use them.
		* The bits are defined in uapi/asm/hwcap2.h.
		*/
		#define ELF_HWCAP2 (elf_hwcap2)

		/* This yields a string that ld.so will use to load implementation
		specific libraries for optimization. This is more specific in
		intent than poking at uname or /proc/cpuinfo.

arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/hwcap2.h

0 → 100644

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		#ifndef _ASM_X86_HWCAP2_H
		#define _ASM_X86_HWCAP2_H

		/* MONITOR/MWAIT enabled in Ring 3 */
		#define HWCAP2_RING3MWAIT (1 << 0)

		#endif

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c

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		@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
		#include <asm/desc.h>
		#include <asm/fpu/internal.h>
		#include <asm/mtrr.h>
		#include <asm/hwcap2.h>
		#include <linux/numa.h>
		#include <asm/asm.h>
		#include <asm/bugs.h>
		@@ -51,6 +52,8 @@

		#include "cpu.h"

		u32 elf_hwcap2 __read_mostly;

		/* all of these masks are initialized in setup_cpu_local_masks() */
		cpumask_var_t cpu_initialized_mask;
		cpumask_var_t cpu_callout_mask;

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