v1.97.2

[cyring]

[AMD]

• [Hawk Point] Adding Ryzen PRO processors
• [Phoenix] Adding the unlocked Ryzen 8000 Series

[Intel]

• [MeteorLake] New bits specified
• EEO and R2H bits inversion fix in MSR_POWER_CTL (0x1fc)
• Reverse specification of MSR UNCORE_PERF_STATUS
• Prefetchers fix of L1 Scrubbing, L1 Next Page and L2 AMP

[AArch64]

• Providing Exclusive Load/Store to atomic operations
• Improved asm of various macro functions
• Removed LEGACY macros
• Optimized the CORE_COUNT macros
• Marked the Tools feature as nominal: Stress functions available
• Allow user access to Retired Instructions counter
• Fix Instructions counter overflow
• Other PMC enhancements

[CR]

• Fix a building issue with AlmaLinux aka RHEL-9
• Linux kernel 6.9: Avoid redefinition of Intel MSR macros

[Doc]

• README section for AlmaLinux
• CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS kernel build config is forbidden

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This discussion was created from the release v1.97.2.