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From: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Subject: [RFC 0/3] Basic support for LWP
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:30:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1286303429-415145-1-git-send-email-hans.rosenfeld@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101005182739.GE173@escobedo.osrc.amd.com>

LWP (Light-Weight Profiling) is a new profiling mechanism that allows
user mode processes to gather performance data about themselves with
very low overhead. The specification can be found here:
        http://developer.amd.com/cpu/LWP/Pages/default.aspx

These patches are against tip/master 531548b311024e1bec01bc412f5258e243a796b7.

This code adds basic support for LWP to the context switch code, which
is the minimum needed to use LWP. Support for other LWP features like
interrupts will be added later.


Hans Rosenfeld (3):
  Cleanup xsave/xrstor support.
  Allow saving of individual states in fpu_xsave().
  Save/restore LWP state in context switches.

 arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h       |   20 +++------
 arch/x86/include/asm/lwp.h        |   68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h  |    1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h  |   12 +++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h |   12 +++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h      |   90 +++++++++++++++---------------------
 arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c      |   13 +++++
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c      |   13 +++++
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c           |    2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c           |    6 +-
 10 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/lwp.h



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-05 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1286212172-654419-1-git-send-email-hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
2010-10-04 22:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-10-05 14:51   ` Hans Rosenfeld
2010-10-05 15:34     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-10-05 18:27       ` Hans Rosenfeld
2010-10-05 18:30         ` Hans Rosenfeld [this message]
2010-10-05 18:30         ` [RFC 1/3] Cleanup xsave/xrstor support Hans Rosenfeld
2010-10-05 18:30         ` [RFC 2/3] Allow saving of individual states in fpu_xsave() Hans Rosenfeld
2010-10-05 18:30         ` [RFC 3/3] Save/restore LWP state in context switches Hans Rosenfeld
2010-10-06 11:12           ` Brian Gerst
2010-10-07 14:58             ` Hans Rosenfeld
2010-11-23 20:41             ` [RFC 0/2] FPU/xsave rework in preparation for LWP Hans Rosenfeld
2010-11-23 20:41             ` [RFC 1/2] x86, xsave: cleanup xsave/xrstor support Hans Rosenfeld
2010-11-23 20:41             ` [RFC 2/2] x86, xsave: rework xsave support Hans Rosenfeld
2010-11-25  0:36               ` Brian Gerst
2010-10-05 19:05         ` [RFC 0/3] Basic support for LWP Ingo Molnar
2010-10-06  7:35           ` Robert Richter
     [not found]             ` <AANLkTi=T0QmcKeZcgcR+GKk-9OwQUB_x8XdHiNuU7tE_@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-07 10:46               ` Stephane Eranian
2010-10-07 13:59                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-07 14:11                   ` Stephane Eranian
2010-10-07 14:20                     ` Hans Rosenfeld
2010-10-07 14:20                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-07 14:25                       ` Stephane Eranian
2010-10-07 14:47                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-07 15:12                   ` Stephane Eranian
2010-10-05 18:43     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2010-10-06 10:26       ` Andi Kleen

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