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authorJanakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@amd.com>2019-10-07 19:00:22 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-10-08 13:25:24 +0200
commit454de1e7d970d6bc567686052329e4814842867c (patch)
tree194120dc64c7372d59274797a05db8617ac9bd96 /arch/x86/lib
parentda0c9ea146cbe92b832f1b0f694840ea8eb33cce (diff)
x86/asm: Fix MWAITX C-state hint value
As per "AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 3: General-Purpose and System Instructions", MWAITX EAX[7:4]+1 specifies the optional hint of the optimized C-state. For C0 state, EAX[7:4] should be set to 0xf. Currently, a value of 0xf is set for EAX[3:0] instead of EAX[7:4]. Fix this by changing MWAITX_DISABLE_CSTATES from 0xf to 0xf0. This hasn't had any implications so far because setting reserved bits in EAX is simply ignored by the CPU. [ bp: Fixup comment in delay_mwaitx() and massage. ] Signed-off-by: Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191007190011.4859-1-Janakarajan.Natarajan@amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lib')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/lib/delay.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
index b7375dc6898f..c126571e5e2e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ static void delay_mwaitx(unsigned long __loops)
__monitorx(raw_cpu_ptr(&cpu_tss_rw), 0, 0);
/*
- * AMD, like Intel, supports the EAX hint and EAX=0xf
- * means, do not enter any deep C-state and we use it
+ * AMD, like Intel's MWAIT version, supports the EAX hint and
+ * EAX=0xf0 means, do not enter any deep C-state and we use it
* here in delay() to minimize wakeup latency.
*/
__mwaitx(MWAITX_DISABLE_CSTATES, delay, MWAITX_ECX_TIMER_ENABLE);