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    x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate MOVDIRI instruction · 33823f4d
    Fenghua Yu authored
    MOVDIRI moves doubleword or quadword from register to memory through
    direct store which is implemented by using write combining (WC) for
    writing data directly into memory without caching the data.
    
    Programmable agents can handle streaming offload (e.g. high speed packet
    processing in network). Hardware implements a doorbell (tail pointer)
    register that is updated by software when adding new work-elements to
    the streaming offload work-queue.
    
    MOVDIRI can be used as the doorbell write which is a 4-byte or 8-byte
    uncachable write to MMIO. MOVDIRI has lower overhead than other ways
    to write the doorbell.
    
    Availability of the MOVDIRI instruction is indicated by the presence of
    the CPUID feature flag MOVDIRI(CPUID.0x07.0x0:ECX[bit 27]).
    
    Please check the latest Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extensions
    and Future Features Programming Reference for more details on the CPUID
    feature MOVDIRI flag.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
    Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
    Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1540418237-125817-2-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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