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From: "Luc, Piotr" <Piotr.Luc@intel.com>
To: "tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>, "bp@alien8.de" <bp@alien8.de>
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	"Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/cpufeature: Add AVX512_4VNNIW and AVX512_4FMAPS features
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 08:20:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1476692185.27884.7.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610170952120.4912@nanos>

On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 09:55 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2016, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > The spec can be found in Intel Software Developer Manual or in
> > > Instruction Set Extensions Programming Reference. See
> > > https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/69/78/3194
> > > 33-025.pdf.
> > 
> > > 
> > > +/* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:0 (edx),
> > > word 18 */
> > > +#define X86_FEATURE_AVX512_4VNNIW  (18*32+2) /* AVX-512 Neural
> > > Network Instructions */
> > > +#define X86_FEATURE_AVX512_4FMAPS  (18*32+3) /* AVX-512 Multiply
> > > Accumulation Single precision */
> > 
> > This is getting ridiculous: we keep adding new leafs to
> > ->x86_capability, thus bloating cpuinfo_x86 but then it is not even
> > worth it - this patch defines only two bits.
> 
> What's worse is that the Instruction Set Extensions Programming
> Reference
> manual says:
> 
> CPUID.(EAX=07H, ECX=0):EDX[bit 02] AVX512_4FMAPS
> CPUID.(EAX=07H, ECX=0):EBX[bit 03] AVX512_4VNNIW
> 
> So AVX512_4VNNIW is in EBX not EDX. What's correct here? The manual
> or the patch?
> 
> I'm going to zap it.
> 
The manual contains the typo in  table 2.1 on page 2.2.
Please compare it to the detailed description of CPUID in table 4.8 on
page 2-16.
There manual groups both new bits under EDX:

EDX    Bits 01 - 00: Reserved
       Bit 02: AVX512_4VNNIW (Vector instructions for deep learning
enhanced word variable precision.)
       Bit 03: AVX512_4FMAPS (Vector instructions for deep learning
floating-point single precision.)
       Bits 31-04: Reserved

The typo was acknowledged and is going to be fixed in next version of
the document. 

Regards,
Piotr

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-17  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-12 17:57 [PATCH] x86/cpufeature: Add AVX512_4VNNIW and AVX512_4FMAPS features Piotr Luc
2016-10-16 11:21 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Piotr Luc
2016-10-16 14:22   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-10-16 16:02     ` hpa
2016-10-16 16:35       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-10-16 18:42         ` hpa
2016-10-16 22:42           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-10-17  9:55             ` Luc, Piotr
2016-10-17  7:55     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-17  8:20       ` Luc, Piotr [this message]
2016-10-17  8:47         ` Ingo Molnar
2016-10-17  9:53           ` Luc, Piotr
2016-10-17  9:54             ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-17 15:03               ` [PATCH v2] " Piotr Luc
2016-10-18 13:00                 ` [v2] " Luc, Piotr
2016-10-18 13:08                   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-10-18 15:01                     ` [PATCH v3] " Piotr Luc
2016-10-19 15:43                       ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Piotr Luc

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