[PATCH] x86/intel_rdt: Enable CMT and MBM on new Skylake stepping

From: Tony Luck
Date: Fri Jun 08 2018 - 12:07:38 EST


New stepping of Skylake has fixes for cache occupancy and memory
bandwidth monitoring.

Update the code to enable these by default on newer steppings.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.14
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt.c
index 24bfa63e86cf..ec4754f81cbd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt.c
@@ -845,6 +845,8 @@ static __init void rdt_quirks(void)
case INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X:
if (boot_cpu_data.x86_stepping <= 4)
set_rdt_options("!cmt,!mbmtotal,!mbmlocal,!l3cat");
+ else
+ set_rdt_options("!l3cat");
}
}

--
2.17.0