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* [PATCH v7 0/4] x86/cpufeatures: Automatically generate required and disabled feature masks
@ 2025-03-05 18:47 Xin Li (Intel)
  2025-03-05 18:47 ` [PATCH v7 1/4] x86/cpufeatures: Add {required,disabled} feature configs Xin Li (Intel)
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Xin Li (Intel) @ 2025-03-05 18:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, linux-perf-users
  Cc: tglx, mingo, bp, dave.hansen, x86, hpa, will, peterz, yury.norov,
	akpm, acme, namhyung, brgerst, andrew.cooper3, nik.borisov,
	sraithal, philip.li

The x86 build process first generates required and disabled feature
masks based on current build config, and then uses these generated
masks to compile the source code.  When a CPU feature is not enabled
in a build config, e.g., when CONFIG_X86_FRED=n, its feature disable
flag, i.e., DISABLE_FRED, needs to be properly defined and added to
a specific disabled CPU features mask in <asm/disabled-features.h>,
as the following patch does:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231205105030.8698-8-xin3.li@intel.com/.
As a result, the FRED feature bit is surely cleared in the generated
kernel binary when CONFIG_X86_FRED=n.

Recently there is another case to repeat the same exercise for the
AMD SEV-SNP CPU feature:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240126041126.1927228-2-michael.roth@amd.com/.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240126041126.1927228-23-michael.roth@amd.com/.

It was one thing when there were four of CPU feature masks, but with
over 20 it is going to cause mistakes, e.g.,
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aaed79d5-d683-d1bc-7ba1-b33c8d6db618@suse.com/.

We want to eliminate the stupidly repeated exercise to manually assign
features to CPU feature words through introducing an AWK script to
automatically generate a header with required and disabled CPU feature
masks based on current build config, and this patch set does that.

Link to v6:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250228082338.73859-1-xin@zytor.com/

Changes in v7:
* Fix build error with "make distclean; make headers" (Aithal, Srikanth)
* Collect reviewed-bys.


H. Peter Anvin (Intel) (2):
  x86/cpufeatures: Add {required,disabled} feature configs
  x86/cpufeatures: Generate a feature mask header based on build config

Xin Li (Intel) (2):
  x86/cpufeatures: Remove {disabled,required}-features.h
  x86/cpufeatures: Use AWK to generate {REQUIRED|DISABLED}_MASK_BIT_SET

 arch/x86/Kconfig                              |   2 +
 arch/x86/Kconfig.cpufeatures                  | 197 ++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/Makefile                             |  15 ++
 arch/x86/boot/cpucheck.c                      |   3 +-
 arch/x86/boot/cpuflags.c                      |   1 -
 arch/x86/boot/mkcpustr.c                      |   3 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/Kbuild                   |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h             |  70 +------
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h            |   8 -
 arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h      | 161 --------------
 arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h      | 105 ----------
 arch/x86/kernel/verify_cpu.S                  |   4 +
 arch/x86/tools/featuremasks.awk               |  88 ++++++++
 tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h      |   8 -
 .../arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h  | 161 --------------
 .../arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h  | 105 ----------
 tools/perf/check-headers.sh                   |   2 -
 17 files changed, 311 insertions(+), 623 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/Kconfig.cpufeatures
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
 create mode 100755 arch/x86/tools/featuremasks.awk
 delete mode 100644 tools/arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h
 delete mode 100644 tools/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h


base-commit: 32dc26a2f55f71907af0874468298c6ab8a8f7f9
-- 
2.48.1


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2025-03-05 18:47 [PATCH v7 0/4] x86/cpufeatures: Automatically generate required and disabled feature masks Xin Li (Intel)
2025-03-05 18:47 ` [PATCH v7 1/4] x86/cpufeatures: Add {required,disabled} feature configs Xin Li (Intel)
2025-03-05 18:47 ` [PATCH v7 2/4] x86/cpufeatures: Generate a feature mask header based on build config Xin Li (Intel)
2025-03-10  8:18   ` [tip: x86/cpu] x86/cpufeatures: Generate the <asm/cpufeaturemasks.h> " tip-bot2 for H. Peter Anvin (Intel)
2025-03-19 11:03   ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for H. Peter Anvin (Intel)
2025-03-20 16:23     ` Michael Kelley
2025-03-20 16:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2025-03-23 18:06         ` Michael Kelley
2025-03-28 23:23           ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-03-29  0:14             ` Linus Torvalds
2025-03-29  0:22               ` Linus Torvalds
2025-03-29  0:56                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-04-01  7:00                 ` [PATCH] x86: don't re-generate cpufeaturemasks.h so eagerly Ingo Molnar
2025-03-29  0:56               ` [tip: x86/core] x86/cpufeatures: Generate the <asm/cpufeaturemasks.h> header based on build config H. Peter Anvin
2025-03-05 18:47 ` [PATCH v7 3/4] x86/cpufeatures: Remove {disabled,required}-features.h Xin Li (Intel)
2025-03-10  8:18   ` [tip: x86/cpu] " tip-bot2 for Xin Li (Intel)
2025-03-19 11:03   ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Xin Li (Intel)
2025-03-05 18:47 ` [PATCH v7 4/4] x86/cpufeatures: Use AWK to generate {REQUIRED|DISABLED}_MASK_BIT_SET Xin Li (Intel)
2025-03-07 18:28 ` [PATCH v7 0/4] x86/cpufeatures: Automatically generate required and disabled feature masks Xin Li
2025-03-07 19:18   ` Borislav Petkov

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