From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
"Lin, Jing" <jing.lin@intel.com>,
"Kumar, Sanjay K" <sanjay.k.kumar@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/asm: Add support for MOVDIR64B instruction
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 12:03:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190801095928.GA32138@nazgul.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190730230554.8291-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 02:05:54AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Add support for a new instruction MOVDIR64B. The instruction moves
> 64-bytes as direct-store with 64-byte write atomicity from source memory
> address to destination memory address.
>
> MOVDIR64B requires the destination address to be 64-byte aligned. No
> alignment restriction is enforced for source operand.
>
> See Intel Software Developer’s Manual for more information on the
> instruction.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>
> Several upcoming patchsets will make use of the helper.
... so why aren't you sending it together with its first user?
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-01 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-30 23:05 [PATCH] x86/asm: Add support for MOVDIR64B instruction Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-07-31 0:24 ` jinglin
2019-08-01 10:03 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-08-01 11:03 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-08-01 19:20 ` Luck, Tony
2019-08-01 19:36 ` Borislav Petkov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-08-01 19:43 Alexey Dobriyan
2019-08-01 19:49 ` Luck, Tony
2019-08-01 20:28 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-08-01 20:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-01 22:06 ` Luck, Tony
2019-08-02 14:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-05 17:50 ` Lin, Jing
2019-08-01 21:53 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2019-08-02 8:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-02 12:58 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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