[PATCH v4 0/2] x86/fpu: Make AMX state ready for CPU idle

From: Chang S. Bae
Date: Tue May 17 2022 - 18:33:22 EST


Hi,

First of all, my apologies for the long delay with my vacation.

Changes from v3 [1]:
* Call out AMX state only needs to be initialized for CPU idle (Thomas).
* Drop the XCR0 accessor changes as not relevant (Dave).

The series is available here:
git://github.com/intel/amx-linux.git tilerelease

=== Original Cover Letter ===

AMX state is a large state (at least 8KB or more). Entering CPU idle with
this non-initialized large state may result in shallow states while a
deeper low-power state is available.

We can confirm this behavior is implementation-specific. Section 3.3 in [2]
will be updated to clarify this.

Thanks,
Chang

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220325022219.829-1-chang.seok.bae@xxxxxxxxx/
[2]: Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extension Programming Reference
May 2021, https://software.intel.com/content/dam/develop/external/us/en/documents-tps/architecture-instruction-set-extensions-programming-reference.pdf

Chang S. Bae (2):
x86/fpu: Add a helper to prepare AMX state for low-power CPU idle
intel_idle: Add a new flag to initialize the AMX state

arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h | 2 ++
arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h | 9 +++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 13 +++++++++++++
drivers/idle/intel_idle.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
4 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


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