[PATCH 1/1] powerpc: fix missing L2 cache size in /sys/devices/system/cpu

Dave Olson olson at cumulusnetworks.com
Wed Feb 11 03:55:42 AEDT 2015


Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 00:00 -0800, Dave Olson wrote:
> > 
> > OK, now that I understand that's the case, I'll have to go back and
> > re-do the patch to handle both cache-size and d-cache-size for the
> > L2 cache (using whichever is present).
> 
> I notice that you also didn't modify all the other properties, I would
> assume you need to also updates in that area ? Maybe you should
> duplicate the whole structure and have the code look for both.

Since we have line_size_props, I can bump that from 2 to 4
entries, and add "cache_line_size" and "cache_block_size",
instead of an explict check.

I could change size_prop, and nr_sets_prop to be a structure like
line_size_props, if you think that's cleaner than the explict
check for "cache-size", and "cache-sets" in the functions.

These 3 seem to be the only ones at issue, and I should have checked
futher to realize that sets and line size were missing.

What's the preference for the other 2 missing items?

> > I don't have any power Macs to use for testing, would one of you be
> > willing and able to verify the patch on a power Mac?

Dave Olson
olson at cumulusnetworks.com


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