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Commit 25af37f4 authored by Adrian Hunter's avatar Adrian Hunter Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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x86/insn: Add AVX-512 support to the instruction decoder



Add support for Intel's AVX-512 instructions to the instruction decoder.

AVX-512 instructions are documented in Intel Architecture Instruction
Set Extensions Programming Reference (February 2016).

AVX-512 instructions are identified by a EVEX prefix which, for the
purpose of instruction decoding, can be treated as though it were a
4-byte VEX prefix.

Existing instructions which can now accept an EVEX prefix need not be
further annotated in the op code map (x86-opcode-map.txt). In the case
of new instructions, the op code map is updated accordingly.

Also add associated Mask Instructions that are used to manipulate mask
registers used in AVX-512 instructions.

The 'perf tools' instruction decoder is updated in a subsequent patch.
And a representative set of instructions is added to the perf tools new
instructions test in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469003437-32706-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 6f6ef07f
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