Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86: Add cpu_detect_cache_sizes() to init_intel(), add Quark to legacy_cache()

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Oct 06 2014 - 05:55:58 EST


On Sat, 4 Oct 2014, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> @@ -381,7 +381,18 @@ static void init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> #endif
> }
>
> - l2 = init_intel_cacheinfo(c);
> + /* Detect legacy cache sizes */
> + cpu_detect_cache_sizes(c);
> +
> + /*
> + * If cache_size has not been initialized via legacy_cache()
> + * probe it via init_intel_cacheinfo().
> + */
> + if (c->x86_cache_size == 0)
> + l2 = init_intel_cacheinfo(c);
> + else
> + l2 = c->x86_cache_size;

Looking a bit deeper. This wont work because cpu_detect_cache_sizes()
will set c->x86_cache_size for all cpus with extended_cpuid_level >=
0x80000005, which is the case for everything modern. So this results
in init_intel_cacheinfo() not being called anymore.

So we might need the following conditional:

l2 = init_intel_cacheinfo(c);
+ if (!c->x86_cache_size) {
+ cpu_detect_cache_sizes(c);
+ l2 = c->x86_cache_size;
+ }

If that does not work because c->x86_cache_size is not 0 after
init_intel_cacheinfo() we really need to make it family/model
dependent.

Thanks,

tglx
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