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

[Kamal Mostafa]

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-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.1.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 04e031ae07f77cb358cab622ddd3c088d2d50df1 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 89270b4..1e49a03 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -216,9 +216,13 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_ERMS	(9*32+ 9) /* Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB */
 #define X86_FEATURE_INVPCID	(9*32+10) /* Invalidate Processor Context ID */
 #define X86_FEATURE_RTM		(9*32+11) /* Restricted Transactional Memory */
+#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