[PATCH] ARM64: kernel: add support for cpu cache information

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Jan 15 03:52:57 PST 2015


On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 10:42:34AM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> This patch adds support for cacheinfo on ARM64.
> 
> On ARMv8, the cache hierarchy can be identified through Cache Level ID
> (CLIDR) register while the cache geometry is provided by Cache Size ID
> (CCSIDR) register.
> 
> Since the architecture doesn't provide any way of detecting the cpus
> sharing particular cache, device tree is used for the same purpose.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org

Thanks Sudeep. I'll queue this for 3.20.

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Catalin



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