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| author | Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> | 2009-04-10 15:21:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-12 13:08:56 +0200 |
| commit | a30469e7921a6dd2067e9e836d7787cfa0105627 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a5418033c233648b436610a6f6730f37ba80144 /ipc | |
| parent | 1ee4bd92a7aa49eb66c8d5672e837090d3e7b7ff (diff) | |
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 <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239402084.27006.8057.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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