[PATCH 04/33] ACPI / PPTT: Find cache level by cache-id

Fenghua Yu fenghuay at nvidia.com
Wed Nov 12 12:23:49 PST 2025



On 11/7/25 04:34, Ben Horgan wrote:
> From: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> 
> The MPAM table identifies caches by id. The MPAM driver also wants to know
> the cache level to determine if the platform is of the shape that can be
> managed via resctrl. Cacheinfo has this information, but only for CPUs that
> are online.
> 
> Waiting for all CPUs to come online is a problem for platforms where
> CPUs are brought online late by user-space.
> 
> Add a helper that walks every possible cache, until it finds the one
> identified by cache-id, then return the level.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan at arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghuay at nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghuay at nvidia.com>

Thanks.

-Fenghua



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