Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] riscv: Set more data to cacheinfo

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Sun Aug 30 2020 - 03:54:15 EST


Hi,

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 10:09 AM Zong Li <zong.li@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Set cacheinfo.{size,sets,line_size} for each cache node, then we can
> get these information from userland through auxiliary vector.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong.li@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> index bd0f122965c3..8b85abfbd77a 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> @@ -25,12 +25,46 @@ cache_get_priv_group(struct cacheinfo *this_leaf)
> return NULL;
> }
>
> -static void ci_leaf_init(struct cacheinfo *this_leaf,
> - struct device_node *node,
> - enum cache_type type, unsigned int level)
> +static void ci_leaf_init(struct cacheinfo *this_leaf, enum cache_type type,
> + unsigned int level, unsigned int size,
> + unsigned int sets, unsigned int line_size)
> {
> this_leaf->level = level;
> this_leaf->type = type;
> + this_leaf->size = size;
> + this_leaf->number_of_sets = sets;
> + this_leaf->coherency_line_size = line_size;
> +
> + /*
> + * If the cache is fully associative, there is no need to
> + * check the other properties.
> + */
> + if (!(sets == 1) && (sets > 0 && size > 0 && line_size > 0))

Can you explain what this is attempting to do? AFAICT, the if
expression can be reduced to "sets > 1 && size > 0 && size > 0", but
what do you mean with the comment about fully associative caches?

> + this_leaf->ways_of_associativity = (size / sets) / line_size;
> +}