linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/intel_rdt: Enable CMT and MBM on new Skylake stepping

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Date:   Fri,  8 Jun 2018 09:07:32 -0700
From:   Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...ux.intel.com>,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86/intel_rdt: Enable CMT and MBM on new Skylake stepping

New stepping of Skylake has fixes for cache occupancy and memory
bandwidth monitoring.

Update the code to enable these by default on newer steppings.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v4.14
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt.c
index 24bfa63e86cf..ec4754f81cbd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt.c
@@ -845,6 +845,8 @@ static __init void rdt_quirks(void)
 	case INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X:
 		if (boot_cpu_data.x86_stepping <= 4)
 			set_rdt_options("!cmt,!mbmtotal,!mbmlocal,!l3cat");
+		else
+			set_rdt_options("!l3cat");
 	}
 }
 
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