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Skylake (and later) will receive a microcode update to address a TSX errata. This microcode will, on execution of a TSX instruction (speculative or not) use (clobber) PMC3. This update will also provide a new MSR to change this behaviour along with a CPUID bit to enumerate the presence of this new MSR. When the MSR gets set; the microcode will no longer use PMC3 but will Force Abort every TSX transaction (upon executing COMMIT). When TSX Force Abort (TFA) is allowed (default); the MSR gets set when PMC3 gets scheduled and cleared when, after scheduling, PMC3 is unused. When TFA is not allowed; clear PMC3 from all constraints such that it will not get used. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.