Re: [patches] [PATCH] [17/58] i386: Add L3 cache support to AMDCPUID4 emulation

From: Andreas Herrmann
Date: Fri Jul 20 2007 - 13:16:51 EST


I think, Joachim's patch (sent to patches@xxxxxxxxxx on June 14) should
be added as well. I have attached his patch below.


Regards,

Andreas

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This will allow the size field to be reported for all values instead of a
handful and also fills the shard_cpu_map with meaning full value.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Deguara <joachim.deguara@xxxxxxx>
Index: kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
===================================================================
--- kernel.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
+++ kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
@@ -224,12 +224,7 @@ static void __cpuinit amd_cpuid4(int lea
assoc = l3.assoc;
line_size = l3.line_size;
lines_per_tag = l3.lines_per_tag;
- switch (l3.size_encoded) {
- case 4: size_in_kb = 2 * 1024; break;
- case 8: size_in_kb = 4 * 1024; break;
- case 12: size_in_kb = 6 * 1024; break;
- default: size_in_kb = 0; break;
- }
+ size_in_kb = l3.size_encoded * 512;
break;
default:
return;
@@ -238,7 +233,10 @@ static void __cpuinit amd_cpuid4(int lea
eax->split.is_self_initializing = 1;
eax->split.type = types[leaf];
eax->split.level = levels[leaf];
- eax->split.num_threads_sharing = 0;
+ if (leaf == 3)
+ eax->split.num_threads_sharing = current_cpu_data.x86_max_cores - 1;
+ else
+ eax->split.num_threads_sharing = 0;
eax->split.num_cores_on_die = current_cpu_data.x86_max_cores - 1;



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