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Message-Id: <1616785332-165261-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:01:48 -0700
From:   kan.liang@...ux.intel.com
To:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, bp@...en8.de,
        namhyung@...nel.org, jolsa@...hat.com, ak@...ux.intel.com,
        yao.jin@...ux.intel.com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        adrian.hunter@...el.com,
        Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH V3 01/25] x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate Intel Hybrid Technology feature bit

From: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>

Add feature enumeration to identify a processor with Intel Hybrid
Technology: one in which CPUs of more than one type are the same package.
On a hybrid processor, all CPUs support the same homogeneous (i.e.,
symmetric) instruction set. All CPUs enumerate the same features in CPUID.
Thus, software (user space and kernel) can run and migrate to any CPU in
the system as well as utilize any of the enumerated features without any
change or special provisions. The main difference among CPUs in a hybrid
processor are power and performance properties.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>
---
Changes since V2 (as part of patchset for perf change for Alderlake)
 * Don't show "hybrid_cpu" in /proc/cpuinfo (Boris)

Changes since v1 (as part of patchset for perf change for Alderlake)
 * None

Changes since v1 (in a separate posting):
 * Reworded commit message to clearly state what is Intel Hybrid
   Technology. Stress that all CPUs can run the same instruction
   set and support the same features.
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index cc96e26d69f7..1ba4a6e1690c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR		(18*32+10) /* VERW clears CPU buffers */
 #define X86_FEATURE_TSX_FORCE_ABORT	(18*32+13) /* "" TSX_FORCE_ABORT */
 #define X86_FEATURE_SERIALIZE		(18*32+14) /* SERIALIZE instruction */
+#define X86_FEATURE_HYBRID_CPU		(18*32+15) /* "" This part has CPUs of more than one type */
 #define X86_FEATURE_TSXLDTRK		(18*32+16) /* TSX Suspend Load Address Tracking */
 #define X86_FEATURE_PCONFIG		(18*32+18) /* Intel PCONFIG */
 #define X86_FEATURE_ARCH_LBR		(18*32+19) /* Intel ARCH LBR */
-- 
2.17.1

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