From a30469e7921a6dd2067e9e836d7787cfa0105627 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suresh Siddha Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:21:24 -0700 Subject: 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 LKML-Reference: <1239402084.27006.8057.camel@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h index ec666491aaa4..72e5a4491661 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h @@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ struct _xsave_hdr { __u64 reserved2[5]; }; +struct _ymmh_state { + /* 16 * 16 bytes for each YMMH-reg */ + __u32 ymmh_space[64]; +}; + /* * Extended state pointed by the fpstate pointer in the sigcontext. * In addition to the fpstate, information encoded in the xstate_hdr @@ -278,6 +283,7 @@ struct _xsave_hdr { struct _xstate { struct _fpstate fpstate; struct _xsave_hdr xstate_hdr; + struct _ymmh_state ymmh; /* new processor state extensions go here */ }; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b