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/xsave.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h index 08e9a1ac07a..727acc15234 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ #define XSTATE_FP 0x1 #define XSTATE_SSE 0x2 +#define XSTATE_YMM 0x4 #define XSTATE_FPSSE (XSTATE_FP | XSTATE_SSE) @@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ /* * These are the features that the OS can handle currently. */ -#define XCNTXT_MASK (XSTATE_FP | XSTATE_SSE) +#define XCNTXT_MASK (XSTATE_FP | XSTATE_SSE | XSTATE_YMM) #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 #define REX_PREFIX "0x48, " -- cgit v1.2.3