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Jiaxi Chen
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AVX-IFMA is a new instruction in the latest Intel platform Sierra Forest. This instruction packed multiplies unsigned 52-bit integers and adds the low/high 52-bit products to Qword Accumulators. The bit definition: CPUID.(EAX=7,ECX=1):EAX[bit 23] AVX-IFMA is on an expected-dense CPUID leaf and some other bits on this leaf have kernel usages. Given that, define this feature bit like X86_FEATURE_<name> in kernel. Considering AVX-IFMA itself has no truly kernel usages and /proc/cpuinfo has too much unreadable flags, hide this one in /proc/cpuinfo. Advertise AVX-IFMA to KVM userspace. This is safe because there are no new VMX controls or additional host enabling required for guests to use this feature. Signed-off-by: Jiaxi Chen <jiaxi.chen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Message-Id: <20221125125845.1182922-6-jiaxi.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.