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authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2021-06-30 10:47:06 -0700
committerH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2021-07-01 10:47:35 -0700
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x86: Check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM [BZ #28033]
From

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000059422/processors.html

* Intel TSX will be disabled by default.
* The processor will force abort all Restricted Transactional Memory (RTM)
  transactions by default.
* A new CPUID bit CPUID.07H.0H.EDX[11](RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT) will be enumerated,
  which is set to indicate to updated software that the loaded microcode is
  forcing RTM abort.
* On processors that enumerate support for RTM, the CPUID enumeration bits
  for Intel TSX (CPUID.07H.0H.EBX[11] and CPUID.07H.0H.EBX[4]) continue to
  be set by default after microcode update.
* Workloads that were benefited from Intel TSX might experience a change
  in performance.
* System software may use a new bit in Model-Specific Register (MSR) 0x10F
  TSX_FORCE_ABORT[TSX_CPUID_CLEAR] functionality to clear the Hardware Lock
  Elision (HLE) and RTM bits to indicate to software that Intel TSX is
  disabled.

1. Add RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT to CPUID features.
2. Set RTM usable only if RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT isn't set.  This skips the
string/tst-memchr-rtm etc. testcases on the affected processors, which
always fail after a microcde update.
3. Check RTM feature, instead of usability, against /proc/cpuinfo.

This fixes BZ #28033.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-supports.c')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-supports.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-supports.c b/sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-supports.c
index a2cabc90be..867ea6b8e8 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-supports.c
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-supports.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ do_test (int argc, char **argv)
   fails += CHECK_SUPPORTS (rdpid, RDPID);
   fails += CHECK_SUPPORTS (rdrnd, RDRAND);
   fails += CHECK_SUPPORTS (rdseed, RDSEED);
-  fails += CHECK_SUPPORTS (rtm, RTM);
+  fails += CHECK_CPU_SUPPORTS (rtm, RTM);
   fails += CHECK_SUPPORTS (serialize, SERIALIZE);
   fails += CHECK_SUPPORTS (sha, SHA);
   fails += CHECK_CPU_SUPPORTS (shstk, SHSTK);