x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate MOVDIR64B instruction
authorFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:57:17 +0000 (14:57 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 05:42:48 +0000 (07:42 +0200)
commitace6485a03266cc3c198ce8e927a1ce0ce139699
treede33725e7c765b04558c063e18f151c33a5b6114
parent33823f4d63f7a010653d219800539409a78ef4be
x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate MOVDIR64B instruction

MOVDIR64B moves 64-bytes as direct-store with 64-bytes write atomicity.
Direct store is implemented by using write combining (WC) for writing
data directly into memory without caching the data.

In low latency offload (e.g. Non-Volatile Memory, etc), MOVDIR64B writes
work descriptors (and data in some cases) to device-hosted work-queues
atomically without cache pollution.

Availability of the MOVDIR64B instruction is indicated by the
presence of the CPUID feature flag MOVDIR64B (CPUID.0x07.0x0:ECX[bit 28]).

Please check the latest Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extensions
and Future Features Programming Reference for more details on the CPUID
feature MOVDIR64B flag.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1540418237-125817-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h