Re: [PATCH v3] x86: move cacheinfo sysfs to generic cacheinfo infrastructure

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Wed Mar 11 2015 - 11:44:49 EST


Hi Boris,

On 11/03/15 13:36, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 02:35:12PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
My initial assumption was that it will be NULL for Intel processors
and hence I assigned cacheinfo->priv to nb pointer unconditionally. So
I don't have any strong opinion here.

Right, we need the NB descriptor on AMD to do L3-specific operations,
see amd_l3_disable_index() for an example.

IOW, I ended up committing this:


It looks fine to me except one unwanted/incorrect line in the commit log as mentioned below. I gave it a spin on my i7 box and it works.
Thanks for the fix up.

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From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:54:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] x86/cacheinfo: Fix cache_get_priv_group() for Intel
processors

The private pointer provided by the cacheinfo code is used to implement
the AMD L3 cache-specific attributes using a pointer to the northbridge
descriptor. It is needed for performing L3-specific operations and for
that we need a couple of PCI devices and other service information, all
contained in the northbridge descriptor.

However, it's populated even on Intel processors for an L3 cache.

After testing this patch, I think I had misunderstood before and it's
not populated on Intel processors, so you can drop the line above.

Regards,
Sudeep

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