Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Mar 2015 13:27:20 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] x86: move cacheinfo sysfs to generic cacheinfo infrastructure |
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On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:00:16PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote: > This patch removes the redundant sysfs cacheinfo code by reusing > the newly introduced generic cacheinfo infrastructure through the > commit 246246cbde5e ("drivers: base: support cpu cache information > interface to userspace via sysfs") > > The private pointer provided by the cacheinfo is used to implement > the AMD L3 cache specific attributes. > > Note that with v4.0-rc1, commit 513e3d2d11c9 ("cpumask: always use > nr_cpu_ids in formatting and parsing functions") in particular changes > from long format to shorter one for all cpumasks sysfs entries. As the > consequence of the same, even the shared_cpu_map in the cacheinfo sysfs > was also changed. > > This patch neither alters any existing sysfs entries nor their formating, > however since the generic cacheinfo has switched to use the device > attributes instead of the traditional raw kobjects, a directory named > "power" along with its standard attributes are added similar to any > other device. > > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> > Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> > Cc: x86@kernel.org
Applied, thanks guys.
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