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Commit 31fa8025 authored by Gabor Buella's avatar Gabor Buella
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[X86] WaitPKG instructions

Three new instructions:

umonitor - Sets up a linear address range to be
monitored by hardware and activates the monitor.
The address range should be a writeback memory
caching type.

umwait - A hint that allows the processor to
stop instruction execution and enter an
implementation-dependent optimized state
until occurrence of a class of events.

tpause - Directs the processor to enter an
implementation-dependent optimized state
until the TSC reaches the value in EDX:EAX.

Also modifying the description of the mfence
instruction, as the rep prefix (0xF3) was allowed
before, which would conflict with umonitor during
disassembly.

Before:
$ echo 0xf3,0x0f,0xae,0xf0 | llvm-mc -disassemble
.text
mfence

After:
$ echo 0xf3,0x0f,0xae,0xf0 | llvm-mc -disassemble
.text
umonitor        %rax

Reviewers: craig.topper, zvi

Reviewed By: craig.topper

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45253

llvm-svn: 330462
parent 041eb6fe
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