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https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000059422/processors.html
* Intel TSX will be disabled by default.
* The processor will force abort all Restricted Transactional Memory (RTM)
transactions by default.
* A new CPUID bit CPUID.07H.0H.EDX[11](RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT) will be enumerated,
which is set to indicate to updated software that the loaded microcode is
forcing RTM abort.
* On processors that enumerate support for RTM, the CPUID enumeration bits
for Intel TSX (CPUID.07H.0H.EBX[11] and CPUID.07H.0H.EBX[4]) continue to
be set by default after microcode update.
* Workloads that were benefited from Intel TSX might experience a change
in performance.
* System software may use a new bit in Model-Specific Register (MSR) 0x10F
TSX_FORCE_ABORT[TSX_CPUID_CLEAR] functionality to clear the Hardware Lock
Elision (HLE) and RTM bits to indicate to software that Intel TSX is
disabled.
1. Add RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT to CPUID features.
2. Set RTM usable only if RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT isn't set. This skips the
string/tst-memchr-rtm etc. testcases on the affected processors, which
always fail after a microcde update.
3. Check RTM feature, instead of usability, against /proc/cpuinfo.
This fixes BZ #28033.
1. Add CPUID_INDEX_14_ECX_0 for CPUID leaf 0x14 to detect PTWRITE feature
in EBX of CPUID leaf 0x14 with ECX == 0.
2. Add PTWRITE detection to CPU feature tests.
3. Add 2 static CPU feature tests.
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 6694 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from benchtests/bench-pthread-locks.c
and iconvdata/tst-iconv-big5-hkscs-to-2ucs4.c, to work around this
diagnostic from Savannah:
remote: *** pre-commit check failed ...
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
Check HAS_CPU_FEATURE instead of CPU_FEATURE_USABLE for FSGSBASE, IBT,
LM, SHSTK and XSAVES since FSGSBASE requires kernel support, IBT/SHSTK/LM
require OS support and XSAVES is supervisor-mode only.
Install <sys/platform/x86.h> so that programmers can do
#if __has_include(<sys/platform/x86.h>)
#include <sys/platform/x86.h>
#endif
...
if (CPU_FEATURE_USABLE (SSE2))
...
if (CPU_FEATURE_USABLE (AVX2))
...
<sys/platform/x86.h> exports only:
enum
{
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_1 = 0,
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_7,
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001,
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_D_ECX_1,
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000007,
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000008,
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_7_ECX_1,
/* Keep the following line at the end. */
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX
};
struct cpuid_features
{
struct cpuid_registers cpuid;
struct cpuid_registers usable;
};
struct cpu_features
{
struct cpu_features_basic basic;
struct cpuid_features features[COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX];
};
/* Get a pointer to the CPU features structure. */
extern const struct cpu_features *__x86_get_cpu_features
(unsigned int max) __attribute__ ((const));
Since all feature checks are done through macros, programs compiled with
a newer <sys/platform/x86.h> are compatible with the older glibc binaries
as long as the layout of struct cpu_features is identical. The features
array can be expanded with backward binary compatibility for both .o and
.so files. When COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX is increased to support new
processor features, __x86_get_cpu_features in the older glibc binaries
returns NULL and HAS_CPU_FEATURE/CPU_FEATURE_USABLE return false on the
new processor feature. No new symbol version is neeeded.
Both CPU_FEATURE_USABLE and HAS_CPU_FEATURE are provided. HAS_CPU_FEATURE
can be used to identify processor features.
Note: Although GCC has __builtin_cpu_supports, it only supports a subset
of <sys/platform/x86.h> and it is equivalent to CPU_FEATURE_USABLE. It
doesn't support HAS_CPU_FEATURE.
