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authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2020-06-29 18:30:54 -0700
committerH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2020-09-11 17:20:52 -0700
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x86: Install <sys/platform/x86.h> [BZ #26124]
Install <sys/platform/x86.h> so that programmers can do #if __has_include(<sys/platform/x86.h>) #include <sys/platform/x86.h> #endif ... if (CPU_FEATURE_USABLE (SSE2)) ... if (CPU_FEATURE_USABLE (AVX2)) ... <sys/platform/x86.h> exports only: enum { COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_1 = 0, COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_7, COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001, COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_D_ECX_1, COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000007, COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000008, COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_7_ECX_1, /* Keep the following line at the end. */ COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX }; struct cpuid_features { struct cpuid_registers cpuid; struct cpuid_registers usable; }; struct cpu_features { struct cpu_features_basic basic; struct cpuid_features features[COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX]; }; /* Get a pointer to the CPU features structure. */ extern const struct cpu_features *__x86_get_cpu_features (unsigned int max) __attribute__ ((const)); Since all feature checks are done through macros, programs compiled with a newer <sys/platform/x86.h> are compatible with the older glibc binaries as long as the layout of struct cpu_features is identical. The features array can be expanded with backward binary compatibility for both .o and .so files. When COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX is increased to support new processor features, __x86_get_cpu_features in the older glibc binaries returns NULL and HAS_CPU_FEATURE/CPU_FEATURE_USABLE return false on the new processor feature. No new symbol version is neeeded. Both CPU_FEATURE_USABLE and HAS_CPU_FEATURE are provided. HAS_CPU_FEATURE can be used to identify processor features. Note: Although GCC has __builtin_cpu_supports, it only supports a subset of <sys/platform/x86.h> and it is equivalent to CPU_FEATURE_USABLE. It doesn't support HAS_CPU_FEATURE.
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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Version 2.33
Major new features:
+* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs: