x86/insn: remove pcommit

The pcommit instruction is being deprecated in favor of either ADR
(asynchronous DRAM refresh: flush-on-power-fail) at the platform level, or
posted-write-queue flush addresses as defined by the ACPI 6.x NFIT (NVDIMM
Firmware Interface Table).

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Dan Williams
2016-06-02 11:06:13 -07:00
parent dfa169bbee
commit fd1d961dd6
8 changed files with 3 additions and 58 deletions

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@@ -654,5 +654,3 @@
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"0f c7 9c c8 78 56 34 12 \txrstors 0x12345678(%eax,%ecx,8)",},
{{0x66, 0x0f, 0xae, 0xf8, }, 4, 0, "", "",
"66 0f ae f8 \tpcommit ",},

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@@ -764,5 +764,3 @@
"0f c7 9c c8 78 56 34 12 \txrstors 0x12345678(%rax,%rcx,8)",},
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"41 0f c7 9c c8 78 56 34 12 \txrstors 0x12345678(%r8,%rcx,8)",},
{{0x66, 0x0f, 0xae, 0xf8, }, 4, 0, "", "",
"66 0f ae f8 \tpcommit ",},

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@@ -866,10 +866,6 @@ int main(void)
#endif /* #ifndef __x86_64__ */
/* pcommit */
asm volatile("pcommit");
/* Following line is a marker for the awk script - do not change */
asm volatile("rdtsc"); /* Stop here */