Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] x86, mwaitt: introduce mwaix delay with a configurable timer

[Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:34:15AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> wrote:
> > MWAITX can enable a timer and a corresponding timer value specified in SW
> > P0 clocks. The SW P0 frequency is the same with TSC. The timer provides an
> > upper bound on how long the instruction waits before exiting.
> >
> > The implementation of delay function in kernel can lerverage the timer of
> > MWAITX. This patch provides a new method (delay_mwaitx) to measure delay
> > time.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> > Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> > Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h | 11 +++++++++++
> >  arch/x86/lib/delay.c         | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
> > index ece8048..9b41580 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
> > @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
> >  #define CPUID5_ECX_INTERRUPT_BREAK     0x2
> >
> >  #define MWAIT_ECX_INTERRUPT_BREAK      0x1
> > +#define MWAITX_ECX_TIMER_ENABLE                BIT(1)
> > +#define MWAITX_MAX_LOOPS               ((u32)-1)
> >
> >  static inline void __monitor(const void *eax, unsigned long ecx,
> >                              unsigned long edx)
> > @@ -80,4 +82,13 @@ static inline void mwait_idle_with_hints(unsigned long eax, unsigned long ecx)
> >         current_clr_polling();
> >  }
> >
> > +static inline void mwaitx(unsigned long eax, unsigned long loops,
> > +                         bool enable)
> > +{
> > +       if (enable)
> > +               __mwaitx(eax, loops, MWAITX_ECX_TIMER_ENABLE);
> > +       else
> > +               __mwaitx(eax, 0, 0);
> > +}
> 
> What's the purpose of the "enable" parameter?
> 

Enable mwaitx timer. Should I add comments to explain the usage?

Thanks,
Rui