[PATCH v8: 0/4] Enabling Ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature for Knights Landing

2016-11-01 Thread Grzegorz Andrejczuk
These patches enable Intel Xeon Phi x200 feature to use MONITOR/MWAIT instruction in ring 3 (userspace) Patches set MSR 0x140 for all logical CPUs. Then expose it as CPU feature and introduces elf HWCAP capability for x86. Reference:

[PATCH v8: 0/4] Enabling Ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature for Knights Landing

2016-11-01 Thread Grzegorz Andrejczuk
These patches enable Intel Xeon Phi x200 feature to use MONITOR/MWAIT instruction in ring 3 (userspace) Patches set MSR 0x140 for all logical CPUs. Then expose it as CPU feature and introduces elf HWCAP capability for x86. Reference: