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authorKyung Min Park <kyung.min.park@intel.com>2020-04-24 12:37:56 -0700
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2020-05-07 16:06:20 +0200
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x86/delay: Introduce TPAUSE delay
TPAUSE instructs the processor to enter an implementation-dependent optimized state. The instruction execution wakes up when the time-stamp counter reaches or exceeds the implicit EDX:EAX 64-bit input value. The instruction execution also wakes up due to the expiration of the operating system time-limit or by an external interrupt or exceptions such as a debug exception or a machine check exception. TPAUSE offers a choice of two lower power states: 1. Light-weight power/performance optimized state C0.1 2. Improved power/performance optimized state C0.2 This way, it can save power with low wake-up latency in comparison to spinloop based delay. The selection between the two is governed by the input register. TPAUSE is available on processors with X86_FEATURE_WAITPKG. Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kyung Min Park <kyung.min.park@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1587757076-30337-4-git-send-email-kyung.min.park@intel.com
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