Re: [PATCH v7 02/13] drivers: base: cacheinfo: setup DT cache properties early

[Sudeep Holla]

On 28/02/18 22:06, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> The original intent in cacheinfo was that an architecture
> specific populate_cache_leaves() would probe the hardware
> and then cache_shared_cpu_map_setup() and
> cache_override_properties() would provide firmware help to
> extend/expand upon what was probed. Arm64 was really
> the only architecture that was working this way, and
> with the removal of most of the hardware probing logic it
> became clear that it was possible to simplify the logic a bit.
> 
> This patch combines the walk of the DT nodes with the
> code updating the cache size/line_size and nr_sets.
> cache_override_properties() (which was DT specific) is
> then removed. The result is that cacheinfo.of_node is
> no longer used as a temporary place to hold DT references
> for future calls that update cache properties. That change
> helps to clarify its one remaining use (matching
> cacheinfo nodes that represent shared caches) which
> will be used by the ACPI/PPTT code in the following patches.
> 

Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>

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Regards,
Sudeep