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author | Dave Hansen <[email protected]> | 2016-02-12 13:01:58 -0800 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2016-02-16 10:11:13 +0100 |
commit | 1f96b1efbad4bb753e7fd265753f6cac1cdc5648 (patch) | |
tree | 9a4f89e246807c0fe82a0ff99428540bd6861255 /tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py | |
parent | d4edcf0d56958db0aca0196314ca38a5e730ea92 (diff) |
x86/fpu: Add placeholder for 'Processor Trace' XSAVE state
There is an XSAVE state component for Intel Processor Trace (PT).
But, we do not currently use it.
We add a placeholder in the code for it so it is not a mystery and
also so we do not need an explicit enum initialization for Protection
Keys in a moment.
Why don't we use it?
We might end up using this at _some_ point in the future. But,
this is a "system" state which requires using the currently
unsupported XSAVES feature. Unlike all the other XSAVE states,
PT state is also not directly tied to a thread. You might
context-switch between threads, but not want to change any of the
PT state. Or, you might switch between threads, and *do* want to
change PT state, all depending on what is being traced.
We currently just manually set some MSRs to do this PT context
switching, and it is unclear whether replacing our direct MSR use
with XSAVE will be a net win or loss, both in code complexity and
performance.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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