From a30469e7921a6dd2067e9e836d7787cfa0105627 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suresh Siddha Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:21:24 -0700 Subject: x86: add linux kernel support for YMM state Impact: save/restore Intel-AVX state properly between tasks Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) introduce 256-bit vector processing capability. More about AVX at http://software.intel.com/sites/avx Add OS support for YMM state management using xsave/xrstor infrastructure to support AVX. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha LKML-Reference: <1239402084.27006.8057.camel@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h index 34c52370f2f..fcf4d92e7e0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h @@ -352,6 +352,11 @@ struct i387_soft_struct { u32 entry_eip; }; +struct ymmh_struct { + /* 16 * 16 bytes for each YMMH-reg = 256 bytes */ + u32 ymmh_space[64]; +}; + struct xsave_hdr_struct { u64 xstate_bv; u64 reserved1[2]; @@ -361,6 +366,7 @@ struct xsave_hdr_struct { struct xsave_struct { struct i387_fxsave_struct i387; struct xsave_hdr_struct xsave_hdr; + struct ymmh_struct ymmh; /* new processor state extensions will go here */ } __attribute__ ((packed, aligned (64))); -- cgit v1.2.3