[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "x86, AVX-512: AVX-512 Feature Detection" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86, AVX-512: AVX-512 Feature Detection

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 027d68fe8884722cc7893331440c88772d89d1d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu at intel.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:24:50 -0800
Subject: x86, AVX-512: AVX-512 Feature Detection

commit 8e5780fdeef7dc490b3f0b3a62704593721fa4f3 upstream.

AVX-512 is an extention of AVX2. Its spec can be found at:
http://download-software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/71/2e/319433-017.pdf

This patch detects AVX-512 features by CPUID.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu at intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392931491-33237-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 7076d71..bb63237 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -217,9 +217,13 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_INVPCID	(9*32+10) /* Invalidate Processor Context ID */
 #define X86_FEATURE_RTM		(9*32+11) /* Restricted Transactional Memory */
 #define X86_FEATURE_MPX		(9*32+14) /* Memory Protection Extension */
+#define X86_FEATURE_AVX512F	(9*32+16) /* AVX-512 Foundation */
 #define X86_FEATURE_RDSEED	(9*32+18) /* The RDSEED instruction */
 #define X86_FEATURE_ADX		(9*32+19) /* The ADCX and ADOX instructions */
 #define X86_FEATURE_SMAP	(9*32+20) /* Supervisor Mode Access Prevention */
+#define X86_FEATURE_AVX512PF	(9*32+26) /* AVX-512 Prefetch */
+#define X86_FEATURE_AVX512ER	(9*32+27) /* AVX-512 Exponential and Reciprocal */
+#define X86_FEATURE_AVX512CD	(9*32+28) /* AVX-512 Conflict Detection */

 /*
  * BUG word(s)
--
1.9.1