Pull x86 cache QoS (RDT/CAR) updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Add support for pseudo-locked cache regions.
Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) allows on certain CPUs to isolate a
region of cache and 'lock' it. Cache pseudo-locking builds on the fact
that a CPU can still read and write data pre-allocated outside its
current allocated area on cache hit. With cache pseudo-locking data
can be preloaded into a reserved portion of cache that no application
can fill, and from that point on will only serve cache hits. The cache
pseudo-locked memory is made accessible to user space where an
application can map it into its virtual address space and thus have a
region of memory with reduced average read latency.
The locking is not perfect and gets totally screwed by WBINDV and
similar mechanisms, but it provides a reasonable enhancement for
certain types of latency sensitive applications.
The implementation extends the current CAT mechanism and provides a
generally useful exclusive CAT mode on which it builds the extra
pseude-locked regions"
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
x86/intel_rdt: Disable PMU access
x86/intel_rdt: Fix possible circular lock dependency
x86/intel_rdt: Make CPU information accessible for pseudo-locked regions
x86/intel_rdt: Support restoration of subset of permissions
x86/intel_rdt: Fix cleanup of plr structure on error
x86/intel_rdt: Move pseudo_lock_region_clear()
x86/intel_rdt: Limit C-states dynamically when pseudo-locking active
x86/intel_rdt: Support L3 cache performance event of Broadwell
x86/intel_rdt: More precise L2 hit/miss measurements
x86/intel_rdt: Create character device exposing pseudo-locked region
x86/intel_rdt: Create debugfs files for pseudo-locking testing
x86/intel_rdt: Create resctrl debug area
x86/intel_rdt: Ensure RDT cleanup on exit
x86/intel_rdt: Resctrl files reflect pseudo-locked information
x86/intel_rdt: Support creation/removal of pseudo-locked region
x86/intel_rdt: Pseudo-lock region creation/removal core
x86/intel_rdt: Discover supported platforms via prefetch disable bits
x86/intel_rdt: Add utilities to test pseudo-locked region possibility
x86/intel_rdt: Split resource group removal in two
x86/intel_rdt: Enable entering of pseudo-locksetup mode
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