13324c42c1
Pull x86 CPU feature updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Updates for x86 CPU features:
- Support for UMWAIT/UMONITOR, which allows to use MWAIT and MONITOR
instructions in user space to save power e.g. in HPC workloads
which spin wait on synchronization points.
The maximum time a MWAIT can halt in userspace is controlled by the
kernel and can be adjusted by the sysadmin.
- Speed up the MTRR handling code on CPUs which support cache
self-snooping correctly.
On those CPUs the wbinvd() invocations can be omitted which speeds
up the MTRR setup by a factor of 50.
- Support for the new x86 vendor Zhaoxin who develops processors
based on the VIA Centaur technology.
- Prevent 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' from affecting isolated NOHZ_FULL CPUs
by sending IPIs to retrieve the CPU frequency and use the cached
values instead.
- The addition and late revert of the FSGSBASE support. The revert
was required as it turned out that the code still has hard to
diagnose issues. Yet another engineering trainwreck...
- Small fixes, cleanups, improvements and the usual new Intel CPU
family/model addons"
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
x86/fsgsbase: Revert FSGSBASE support
selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Fix some test case bugs
x86/entry/64: Fix and clean up paranoid_exit
x86/entry/64: Don't compile ignore_sysret if 32-bit emulation is enabled
selftests/x86: Test SYSCALL and SYSENTER manually with TF set
x86/mtrr: Skip cache flushes on CPUs with cache self-snooping
x86/cpu/intel: Clear cache self-snoop capability in CPUs with known errata
Documentation/ABI: Document umwait control sysfs interfaces
x86/umwait: Add sysfs interface to control umwait maximum time
x86/umwait: Add sysfs interface to control umwait C0.2 state
x86/umwait: Initialize umwait control values
x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate user wait instructions
x86/cpu: Disable frequency requests via aperfmperf IPI for nohz_full CPUs
x86/acpi/cstate: Add Zhaoxin processors support for cache flush policy in C3
ACPI, x86: Add Zhaoxin processors support for NONSTOP TSC
x86/cpu: Create Zhaoxin processors architecture support file
x86/cpu: Split Tremont based Atoms from the rest
Documentation/x86/64: Add documentation for GS/FS addressing mode
x86/elf: Enumerate kernel FSGSBASE capability in AT_HWCAP2
x86/cpu: Enable FSGSBASE on 64bit by default and add a chicken bit
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