[PATCH] arm64: Add L2 cache topology to ARM Ltd boards/models

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Wed Feb 25 10:19:07 PST 2015



On 25/02/15 16:14, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2015 15:14:14 Sudeep Holla wrote:
>> Hi Arnd,
>>
>> On 21/01/15 14:43, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 21 January 2015 12:02:30 Sudeep Holla wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Arnd/Olof,
>>>>
>>>> Though this patch and commit 5d425c18653731af6 ("arm64: kernel: add
>>>> support for cpu cache information") which is in -next(via arm64) are
>>>> dependent to provide desired functionality, then can go indepedently
>>>> if you think there could be conflicts if this change is taken via arm64.
>>>> If not, Catalin can pick up with your acks after the review.
>>>
>>> I think it would be better to take this through arm-soc. It's not
>>> extremely likely to cause conflicts, but as you say there are no
>>> strict dependencies on which goes in first, so there is no harm
>>> in merging them separately.
>>>
>>
>> I think this patch got missed for -rc1. The arm64 architectural
>> support patch for cacheinfo got merged via arm64 tree. It would be good
>> if this is also merged so that cache information can be exposed
>> to the user-space on ARM Ltd boards.
>>
>
> Ah, bummer. I've applied this one as a fix for 4.0 because I said we'd
> take it and dropped the ball on it.
>

Thanks Arnd.

Regards,
Sudeep




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