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Commit cbc82b17 authored by Peter P Waskiewicz Jr's avatar Peter P Waskiewicz Jr Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86: Add support for Intel Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) detection



This patch adds support for the new Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM)
feature found in future Intel Xeon processors.  It includes the
new values to track CQM resources to the cpuinfo_x86 structure,
plus the CPUID detection routines for CQM.

CQM allows a process, or set of processes, to be tracked by the CPU
to determine the cache usage of that task group.  Using this data
from the CPU, software can be written to extract this data and
report cache usage and occupancy for a particular process, or
group of processes.

More information about Cache QoS Monitoring can be found in the
Intel (R) x86 Architecture Software Developer Manual, section 17.14.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.w.shin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kanaka Juvva <kanaka.d.juvva@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Honeyman <stevenhoneyman@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422038748-21397-5-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 79dff51e
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