[PATCH 2/2] x86/fpu: Support disabling AVX and AVX512

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Mar 11 2017 - 12:31:24 EST


From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

For performance testing it is useful to be able to disable AVX
and AVX512. User programs check in XGETBV if AVX is supported
by the OS. If we don't initialize the XSAVE state for AVX it will
appear as if the OS is not supporting AVX.

Implement disable options for AVX and AVX512 code in the XSAVE code.

v2: Change description. Make variable static. Remove Intel reference.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 ++
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 2ba45caabada..b94ff507a48f 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -785,6 +785,9 @@
dhash_entries= [KNL]
Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.

+ disable_avx [X86] Disable support for AVX
+ disable_avx512 [X86] Disable support for AVX512
+
disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
index c24ac1efb12d..977ab03eacf7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
@@ -16,6 +16,20 @@

#include <asm/tlbflush.h>

+enum xsave_features {
+ XSAVE_X87,
+ XSAVE_SSE,
+ XSAVE_AVX,
+ XSAVE_MPX_BOUNDS,
+ XSAVE_MPX_CSR,
+ XSAVE_AVX512_OPMASK,
+ XSAVE_AVX512_HI256,
+ XSAVE_AVX512_ZMM_HI256,
+ XSAVE_PT,
+ XSAVE_PKU,
+ XSAVE_UNKNOWN
+};
+
/*
* Although we spell it out in here, the Processor Trace
* xfeature is completely unused. We use other mechanisms
@@ -41,6 +55,8 @@ static const char *xfeature_names[] =
*/
u64 xfeatures_mask __read_mostly;

+static u64 xfeatures_disabled __initdata;
+
static unsigned int xstate_offsets[XFEATURE_MAX] = { [ 0 ... XFEATURE_MAX - 1] = -1};
static unsigned int xstate_sizes[XFEATURE_MAX] = { [ 0 ... XFEATURE_MAX - 1] = -1};
static unsigned int xstate_comp_offsets[sizeof(xfeatures_mask)*8];
@@ -52,6 +68,21 @@ static unsigned int xstate_comp_offsets[sizeof(xfeatures_mask)*8];
*/
unsigned int fpu_user_xstate_size;

+static void clear_avx512(void)
+{
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512F);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512IFMA);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512PF);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512ER);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512CD);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512DQ);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512BW);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512VL);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512VBMI);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512_4VNNIW);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512_4FMAPS);
+}
+
/*
* Clear all of the X86_FEATURE_* bits that are unavailable
* when the CPU has no XSAVE support.
@@ -64,17 +95,9 @@ void fpu__xstate_clear_all_cpu_caps(void)
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES);
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX);
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX2);
- setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512F);
- setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512IFMA);
- setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512PF);
- setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512ER);
- setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512CD);
- setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512DQ);
- setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512BW);
- setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512VL);
+ clear_avx512();
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_MPX);
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XGETBV1);
- setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512VBMI);
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PKU);
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512_4VNNIW);
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512_4FMAPS);
@@ -735,6 +758,7 @@ void __init fpu__init_system_xstate(void)
goto out_disable;
}

+ xfeatures_mask &= ~xfeatures_disabled;
xfeatures_mask &= fpu__get_supported_xfeatures_mask();

/* Enable xstate instructions to be able to continue with initialization: */
@@ -1080,3 +1104,22 @@ int copyin_to_xsaves(const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf,

return 0;
}
+
+static int __init parse_disable_avx512(char *str)
+{
+ xfeatures_disabled |= BIT(XSAVE_AVX512_OPMASK) |
+ BIT(XSAVE_AVX512_HI256) |
+ BIT(XSAVE_AVX512_ZMM_HI256);
+ clear_avx512();
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("disable_avx512", parse_disable_avx512);
+
+static int __init parse_disable_avx(char *str)
+{
+ xfeatures_disabled |= BIT(XSAVE_AVX);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX2);
+ return parse_disable_avx512(NULL);
+}
+early_param("disable_avx", parse_disable_avx);
--
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